Tokyo Tower

Author: Kaoru Iwaki
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Shi and Komeko are the two male protagonists in the novel who fall in love with each other. In terms of their roles in society, they are both married women, and they also have at least seemingly fairly happy families (in reality, they do not deny this either). However, they both develop extramarital affairs. But their handling of extramarital affairs is extremely rational, and they all have a minimum limit, which is that they are unwilling to let their extramarital affairs endanger their existing family life. In this way, they can neither lose the happiness of their existing family life nor lose the desire for "some ripples in the mechanical daily life." Goro has a reason for liking older women, just as he once told Toru, not because older women's bodies are special, or because they don't have to worry about money, or because walking with them on the street attracts attention, or because they don't ask seriously about what will happen in the future, but for an extremely simple reason: older women are more innocent.