The Japanese Lover

Rani Manicka doesn't disappoint with another poignant and touching story set again in her favorite(?) lands of Ceylon and Malaya. Young Parvati is married and sent away from Ceylon to a wealthy businessman in Malaya. However, once her husband, Kasu Marimuthu finds out he was cheated by being a shown a different, prettier photograph of his wife to be he punishes her to a life with wealth but no love.. Parvati is married but lonely. She has always wished to be passionately loved with careless abandon. Japanese invasion of Malaya has been shown in a different light as compared to "The rice mother" when Parvati finds and is forced to befriend a Japanese general who shows her the way to passionate love and extreme ecstasy.

He is the enemy she cannot stop loving.

Sprinkled with numerous interesting and mysterious characters, this books only makes me restless to start with "Touching Earth", another of Rani Manicka's wonders.

"If you could see what I see in your wife," the vision said quietly, "you would fall to your knees in awe. Know that she is an adored soul who has incarnated to experience love in the most unlikely circumstances"
— Rani Manicka (The Japanese Lover)

Best,

Gargi