Lipstick: The first romance novel by Japanese best-selling female author and Akutagawa Prize winner Yoko Moriguchi

Author: Yumeiri Kayo
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Original novel of the most popular Japanese idol drama "Lipstick" in 2002, a tragic love story between Cinderella and her brother. Rika from the Cinderella series graduates from a design school and unexpectedly gets hired by a famous cosmetics company. To her even greater surprise, she is chosen as the spokesperson for the company's lipstick brand. However, she dislikes the dazzling life under the spotlight and rejects the temptation to become an artist. Her greatest wish is simply to be a free and ordinary person. Photographer Kurokawa enters her life, a man torn between his "companion" and Rika, struggling in the whirlpool of emotions like a butterfly chained, wondering if only by falling can the soul be free and light? She never hesitates to speak of her love and hate for blood relations, always writing honestly about the truth of life—both angry and indifferent, both detached yet yearning for warmth. Rika from the Cinderella series graduates from a design school and unexpectedly gets hired by a famous cosmetics company, unexpectedly gets hired by a famous cosmetics company, and to her even greater surprise, she is chosen as the spokesperson for the company's lipstick brand. However, she dislikes the dazzling life under the spotlight and rejects the temptation to become an artist. Her greatest wish is simply to be a free and ordinary person. Photographer Kurokawa enters her life, a man torn between his "companion" and Rika, struggling in the whirlpool of emotions like a butterfly chained, wondering if only by falling can the soul be free and light? This is the love novel by Yumeiri Kayo, the top-selling female author in Japan and a recipient of the Akutagawa Prize. She never hesitates to speak of her love and hate for blood relations, always writing honestly about the truth of life—both angry and indifferent, both detached yet yearning for warmth.