An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister.
The look of love: a novel
โ Scribed by Jio, Sarah
- Publisher
- Penguin Group;Plume
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 270 KB
- Edition
- 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 110162888X
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โฆ Synopsis
Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face grave consequences. When Jane falls for a science writer who doesn't believe in love, she fears that her fate is sealed.
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