![]() ![]() Obviously parental pressure caused them to decide to marry. Through descriptions of a series of days and nights together and separately, they reveal their efforts to cope with an unusual relationship - a marriage that's not a real marriage.īoth his parents and her parents are pretty highly involved in their lives, and constantly phone with deeply personal questions and suggestions for how the young couple should act. He's a hospital physician, she sometimes works as a translator from Italian to Japanese, but mostly stays home. They live in a pleasant apartment in Tokyo. Mutsuki and Shoko, a recently-married couple, alternate as the narrators of the short book. I wonder how much.Īuthor Kaori Ekuni created an extreme situation to explore how social pressure affected individuals who didn't fit perfectly into the narrow constricted Japanese marriage institution of that time, which probably isn't that different from today. The end-papers are also a cartoon-ish design.īetween 1991, the year that the novel Twinkle Twinkle was published, and now, 2016, maybe Japanese marriage customs and expectations have changed. Show two of the many faces printed on the actual cover of the book. ![]() The book Twinkle Twinkle has a clever dust jacket with cut-outs that ![]()
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