Ingen medicin mod kærlighed

by Jakob Halskov

Linda er en midaldrende, dansk gymnasielærerinde, der er kastet ud i en midtvejskrise, efter at børnene er fløjet fra reden. Hun besøger Tokyo for at opleve livet i megabyen, men mødet med Tanaka-san ændrer alt, da en romance blomstrer. Der er ingen medicin mod den kærlighed, hun møder i Tokyo.

Yumiko er blevet direktør i sit eget livsstilsfirma og indleder en hed affære med en ung, mandlig medarbejder. Da hun afviser tilnærmelser fra en mandschauvinistisk og indflydelsesrig politiker, er det begyndelsen på et voldsomt stormvejr, der igen bringer hende i kontakt med Shoko og yakuzaen, den japanske mafia. Shoko er en magtfuld spiller i underverdenen, men hun kæmper med formodede konsekvenser af beslutninger, der skal tages i fremtiden, og beslutninger taget i fortiden.

Ingen medicin mod kærlighed er andet bind i serien Tokyo, der er en tværkulturel romanceroman. Fortællingen har stærke kvindelige karakterer, er hed og eventyrlig og kan læses selvstændigt.

216 pages, Paperback

Published October 25, 2024

About the author

Jakob Halskov has a university degree in English and Japanese. After first visiting Japan in 1995, he has travelled extensively in the country and is deeply fascinated by its culture and language. He has even lived in Tokyo for a couple of years, working for a Japanese company on a local contract. These experiences and interests have propelled him and provided the inspiration and motivation for writing The Tokyo Trilogy. As his day job, Jakob works as an IT specialist in a larger Danish company. He has two kids and lives in the greater Copenhagen area.

According to reliable sources, Jakob started typing up everything from train timetables to Donald Duck dialogues on the old family typewriter when he was only 7 years old in the early 80s. In the late 90s, he struggled hard to learn how to write the almost 2,000 Chinese characters used in modern Japanese (“kanji”), and experienced a bit of a breakthrough when he was finally able to read his first Murakami Haruki novel in the original language at the end of his university language training.

Since 2022 Jakob has been writing his own fiction, making his English debut with "Ripples in the Waters by Lake Kawaguchi", the first volume in The Tokyo Trilogy. On June 15 2024 he made his Danish debut with "Ringe i vandet", which is published by Sweetheart Ink.