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Vibrator
Rei Hayakawa, a lonely, bulimic freelance writer with a drinking problem, wanders into a convenience store. She's swaddled in her coat and scarf, while her thoughts – of alienation, of hunger, of the need for gin and white wine – drift in via stream-of-consciousness. A trucker named Okabe walks in, deliberately grazes her behind, and at the same time, Rei's cell phone, set on vibrate, goes off over her heart. Rei impulsively gets into Okabe's truck with him – and stays. Suddenly she finds herself embarking on a road journey across the wintry landscape of Japan with a complete, and possibly dangerous, stranger. Can the physical relationship that develops between them give Rei what she needs, and can she ever free herself from her self-destructive tendencies? Both parties are wounded, guarded and distant — can they learn to trust each other? Author Mari Akasaka brings her trademark wordplay and vivid imagery to this compelling story of an unlikely pairing set against the bleak backdrop of Japan’s highways. Adapted for the screen in 2003, Vibrator has also been made into a film.
164 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Mari Akasaka
5 books20 followersMari Akasaka was born in Suginami, Tokyo, and studied Politics in the Law Department at Keio University. In 1999 her novel Vibrator was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize. She was again nominated for the Akutagawa prize in 2000 for her novel, Muse, and won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers for the same novel. Vibrator was adapted into a 2003 film starring Shinobu Terajima and Nao Ōmori.
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April 23, 2021
This could have been called 'Vibrations' instead of 'Vibrator'. The back of the book really did not explain the plot accurately at all, making it out to be some raunchy love story. Instead Vibrator is very much about a woman's struggles with serious mental health problems: bulimia and hearing voices in her head. The first part of the book is quite hard to get into as the characters inner voices are very intense and there is a lot about self-induced vomiting that some people might find too much; though it is a very good depiction of bulimia and the thoughts that go with it.
November 21, 2011
I did pick it up, thinking it would kill the boring day at work. It did kill it..but not in a way I had hoped it would. I loved the character and the whole "I'm so bored with my life, so some mindless great sex will help me" search. Because like it or not, there's a point in every person's life when you're wondering whether you're something good, bad or just plain something in between. The language is beautiful and you can almost read it as poetry and it's a book that stays in the back of your mind for a day or two.
Great read when you need fuel to keep going, although it will suffice for a day? or two?
Great read when you need fuel to keep going, although it will suffice for a day? or two?
July 6, 2016
"Vibrator" falls into the first-person-mumbling novel category, where a character just rambles around for as long as the novel lasts, explaining what happens mixed with what they feel and all in a half-incoherent style that is supposed to represent how the brain works. It is supposedly an easier style than writing a 500-page novel about a long past era with a vocabulary adapted to those times, but actually it is more difficult to write than it seems, and to write a good novel in this style is not easy, and takes time and care. Mari Akasaka does a good enough job in making "Vibrator" interesting and easy to read, but she falls into two problems: the journey isn't as interesting as it could be, and, even at just 155 pages she falls into repetition, making the story drag a little bit in moments. It is done on purpose, of course, but the lack of focus hurts the novel and its attractiveness.
Dark and disturbing enough, but it fails in making itself special. A good effort.
6/10
Dark and disturbing enough, but it fails in making itself special. A good effort.
6/10
October 16, 2020
This book was interesting. I am a junkie for Japanese fiction, so I of course has to read this when I saw it. It was a short read. It wasn’t what I expected, but not in a good or bad way. I enjoyed the book and I recommend it to those who like Japanese fiction and possibly unconventional relationships and writing styles. I found the writing style very interesting as it was like nothing I read before. The lines were very blurred between thoughts and conversations. It had also most a surrealist vibe to it which I think I actually really enjoyed. I definitely recommend this.
August 26, 2017
The middle of this book is fantastic. The beginning started as a cool exercise in paranoia/delusion but became tedious quickly, and the last part got a little too abstract. The very end, last three pages or so, were perfect though.
It's only 130 pages so it's probably still worth reading for the middle. Love/obsession/irrationality and all that typical jazz.
It's only 130 pages so it's probably still worth reading for the middle. Love/obsession/irrationality and all that typical jazz.
September 10, 2008
A very fast-paced, engrossing read.
August 13, 2020
Fast-paced, very vivid, and addressing a few somewhat repulsive themes head-on, Vibrator is meant to rattle the reader's sensibilities and it does it well. The story goes into visceral detail about bulimia, eating disorders in general, over-drinking, reckless sexual behavior, and so on.
At the same time, the story and descriptions do not seem to be crafted solely for shock value. There is also a growing fostering of empathy for mental illness and the struggles of a very self-destructive woman, all delivered with a humane and occasionally funny voice.
At the same time, the story and descriptions do not seem to be crafted solely for shock value. There is also a growing fostering of empathy for mental illness and the struggles of a very self-destructive woman, all delivered with a humane and occasionally funny voice.
December 28, 2023
stream of consciousness novels are always crazy. this one is no exception
April 2, 2014
My review from http://dwjjones1.blogspot.co.uk/
Now first thing to say, this is much of what it looks like. It's not some sordid fifty shades of grey thing going on here... well maybe a wee bit but that's not what it is about. The name of the book doesn't even refer to the friendly lady appliance, but rather to the vibrations of a truck cab that is kept running day and night, in which much of the story is set.
The focus of the book is dark as it explores topics such as Alcoholism, Bulimia, Consumerism, Depression, women’s magazines, consumer culture, high school prostitution, gangs, and drugs. It is set in the head of the journalist Rei Hayakawa and her often intense narrative which is a fight between all the voices in her head sets the pace for the book which is often frantic and disturbing. Her intense self loathing makes it hard to spend 130 pages in her head. She feels unable to connect with the outside world and appears to be drowning in her depression.
Late one night she wanders the aisle of her local convenience store, picking up the night’s supply of alcohol (white wine and gin). Yet when she turns the corner and sees Okabe, a 26-year-old trucker and ex-thug in overalls and yellow boots, she follows him out to his long-haul truck, thus starting their eventual journey up and down a snowy Japan.
The voices in Rei's head don't seem to allow her to operate with any form of coherent thought and often leave her struggling to move let alone rational thought.
“when I attempted to make my feet move, my fingers might start twitching or something�the commands and the actions were getting muddled.”
These voices are constantly at war with Rei and as a result anything that she thinks gets over played in her mind, over thought and as a result analyzed by her to the nth degree. This makes the few times where there is actual dialogue spoke by the two characters a refreshing and sometimes necessary break from Rei's over active brain.
The book is about two random people connecting and this is shown throughout the book in the metaphor of the CB radio, something that is constantly receiving messages from random people regardless of distance apart but based on the strength of their signal.
Rei and Okabe are two such signals joined together. There's no reason for them to be together but they have formed this bond in this time and place. people who have caught each others signals and vibrations for a sort time.
What starts as a critique of Modern Consumerism ends as much more personal saga or as much as you can get of one through the medium of Rei's addled thoughts.
A very good but dark book. Well worth a read and yes there is even a wee bit of hanky panky.
7.5 out of 10
Now first thing to say, this is much of what it looks like. It's not some sordid fifty shades of grey thing going on here... well maybe a wee bit but that's not what it is about. The name of the book doesn't even refer to the friendly lady appliance, but rather to the vibrations of a truck cab that is kept running day and night, in which much of the story is set.
The focus of the book is dark as it explores topics such as Alcoholism, Bulimia, Consumerism, Depression, women’s magazines, consumer culture, high school prostitution, gangs, and drugs. It is set in the head of the journalist Rei Hayakawa and her often intense narrative which is a fight between all the voices in her head sets the pace for the book which is often frantic and disturbing. Her intense self loathing makes it hard to spend 130 pages in her head. She feels unable to connect with the outside world and appears to be drowning in her depression.
Late one night she wanders the aisle of her local convenience store, picking up the night’s supply of alcohol (white wine and gin). Yet when she turns the corner and sees Okabe, a 26-year-old trucker and ex-thug in overalls and yellow boots, she follows him out to his long-haul truck, thus starting their eventual journey up and down a snowy Japan.
The voices in Rei's head don't seem to allow her to operate with any form of coherent thought and often leave her struggling to move let alone rational thought.
“when I attempted to make my feet move, my fingers might start twitching or something�the commands and the actions were getting muddled.”
These voices are constantly at war with Rei and as a result anything that she thinks gets over played in her mind, over thought and as a result analyzed by her to the nth degree. This makes the few times where there is actual dialogue spoke by the two characters a refreshing and sometimes necessary break from Rei's over active brain.
The book is about two random people connecting and this is shown throughout the book in the metaphor of the CB radio, something that is constantly receiving messages from random people regardless of distance apart but based on the strength of their signal.
Rei and Okabe are two such signals joined together. There's no reason for them to be together but they have formed this bond in this time and place. people who have caught each others signals and vibrations for a sort time.
What starts as a critique of Modern Consumerism ends as much more personal saga or as much as you can get of one through the medium of Rei's addled thoughts.
A very good but dark book. Well worth a read and yes there is even a wee bit of hanky panky.
7.5 out of 10
October 11, 2014
This book was an unexpectedly interesting find. I picked it up after flipping through the pages quickly, and I'm very glad I did.
The back cover's description did it no justice as far as the story. If you're looking for an awkward love story you'll get it, but it is certainly not the point. It focuses more on the development of a woman who has intense mental issues during a chance encounter with a complete stranger (who turns out having an incredibly interesting story himself). It flows in a stream of consciousness way, then slowly becoming more lucid as the main character does. It does take a while for her inner dialog to quiet down, but it is worth pushing through. It is quite vulgar, and if you're looking for sexy love scenes you might want to put this down. Not advised for the squeamish or anyone who would have a hard time reading about vomit and mental instability.
Overall I felt like the story paid off. It feels pretentiously written at first, but it does wrap up the entire thought process nicely. It's a quick read, maybe two hours to finish. Definitely not for everyone, but certainly worth trying!
The back cover's description did it no justice as far as the story. If you're looking for an awkward love story you'll get it, but it is certainly not the point. It focuses more on the development of a woman who has intense mental issues during a chance encounter with a complete stranger (who turns out having an incredibly interesting story himself). It flows in a stream of consciousness way, then slowly becoming more lucid as the main character does. It does take a while for her inner dialog to quiet down, but it is worth pushing through. It is quite vulgar, and if you're looking for sexy love scenes you might want to put this down. Not advised for the squeamish or anyone who would have a hard time reading about vomit and mental instability.
Overall I felt like the story paid off. It feels pretentiously written at first, but it does wrap up the entire thought process nicely. It's a quick read, maybe two hours to finish. Definitely not for everyone, but certainly worth trying!
October 20, 2017
There have been times in my life where Ive felt completely disordered, and wondered if things will ever be ok, and felt like some meaningless sex is the only thing which might remotely fill that void. Characters like Rei and Okabe reinforce that that feeling isn't at all unusual. It's comforting, really.
January 1, 2025
In class discussion someone said “what if *we* are the vibrator” and honestly I’ve never been the same
August 4, 2021
‘What begins as a moment of genuine madness brought on by loneliness and desperation becomes a fractured love affair [and] an emotional road trip through the traumas of childhood and back roads of Japan.’ – Guardian
I like this summary of Vibrator and much rather include it than flail about trying to write my own. I decided to read this book after desperately searching for the film it was made into, directed by Ryuichi Hiroki. I was so compelled by the synopsis of the story, met with such conviction that it would be the kind that really speaks to me. I combed the internet for an eng sub stream but with no avail, and learning that it came from this novel, I decided to purchase the book instead to satisfy this hunger – a desire that would not let up.
I ripped through this novel in a day. It very much fulfilled my appetite as another depressed, angry and horny woman feeling lost and lonely in her own life. I loved Akasaka’s writing so much; she understands so well this specific female experience and has blasted it through an intelligent, emotionally wringing, and sensual narrative.
Though the prose at times could get confusing, sometimes conceptually and sometimes with its run-on style, I felt myself swallowed up into it – this turbulent interior world that felt at times so bizarre, but also chillingly familiar. Some great insights and articulations of socio-cultural and gendered conditions; I found myself struck by passages I would reread to try fully extract their meaning. This too, is something I appreciate.
For me, it is one of those books where you find yourself so consumed, that by the end, when you come out of it you feel an emptiness and longing. I feel like it has been a while since I have been so violently enraptured like this. I escaped into this book exactly like I hoped I would.
I like this summary of Vibrator and much rather include it than flail about trying to write my own. I decided to read this book after desperately searching for the film it was made into, directed by Ryuichi Hiroki. I was so compelled by the synopsis of the story, met with such conviction that it would be the kind that really speaks to me. I combed the internet for an eng sub stream but with no avail, and learning that it came from this novel, I decided to purchase the book instead to satisfy this hunger – a desire that would not let up.
I ripped through this novel in a day. It very much fulfilled my appetite as another depressed, angry and horny woman feeling lost and lonely in her own life. I loved Akasaka’s writing so much; she understands so well this specific female experience and has blasted it through an intelligent, emotionally wringing, and sensual narrative.
Though the prose at times could get confusing, sometimes conceptually and sometimes with its run-on style, I felt myself swallowed up into it – this turbulent interior world that felt at times so bizarre, but also chillingly familiar. Some great insights and articulations of socio-cultural and gendered conditions; I found myself struck by passages I would reread to try fully extract their meaning. This too, is something I appreciate.
For me, it is one of those books where you find yourself so consumed, that by the end, when you come out of it you feel an emptiness and longing. I feel like it has been a while since I have been so violently enraptured like this. I escaped into this book exactly like I hoped I would.
July 8, 2018
The rambling style of narration used in this book really does not do it for me. The language is crude, one would think that it would fit the darker themes (mental illness, bulimia, etc) but it only manages to make the book hilarious in the wrong way.
March 31, 2009
Vibrator by Akasaka Mari is a book that may resonate more deeply with female readers than male. Much of the novel takes place in the cabin of a truck, which is juxtaposed against the backdrop of the wintery rural landscapes of Japan's north.
The main character is a young female journalist searching for meaning in a cold, hard world. She is lonely, confused and restless. She comes across a truck driver making his routine delivery runs between Kanto (the greater Tokyo area) and northern Japan. The discontent that she feels is momentarily suspended as she goes on these long drives with the trucker. Through their exchange of recollections and backseat love-making she tries to get a better hold of her situation.
Unfortunately, I could not connect with the main character. There was something unlikable about her; maybe the way she expressed herself was too forward, too vulgar. I found it difficult to really have much sympathy for her. She seemed selfish and out of touch with reality as well. However, the truck driver - the anecdotes of his life experiences - made up for some of the short comings. But despite the lack of attachment for the main character, the story overall of this young journatlist desperate to find meaning in a meaningless world was not half bad.
The main character is a young female journalist searching for meaning in a cold, hard world. She is lonely, confused and restless. She comes across a truck driver making his routine delivery runs between Kanto (the greater Tokyo area) and northern Japan. The discontent that she feels is momentarily suspended as she goes on these long drives with the trucker. Through their exchange of recollections and backseat love-making she tries to get a better hold of her situation.
Unfortunately, I could not connect with the main character. There was something unlikable about her; maybe the way she expressed herself was too forward, too vulgar. I found it difficult to really have much sympathy for her. She seemed selfish and out of touch with reality as well. However, the truck driver - the anecdotes of his life experiences - made up for some of the short comings. But despite the lack of attachment for the main character, the story overall of this young journatlist desperate to find meaning in a meaningless world was not half bad.
December 5, 2019
I loved this book. It is rare these days that I read something that completely captivates me, so that I don't want to put it down, but this is easy, complex, thought provoking, sexy and introspective.
The first chapter had me thinking 'what the heck have I started' as the reader is thrown without warning into the schizophrenic viewpoint of the first person; bulimic, confused but highly intelligent. There begins her journey with a young, man, a truck driver, the kind you could meet at any day in the downtown areas of Tokyo.
It is her language, and her self exploration that captured me. Her descriptions of snowflakes, town lights and the light of the trucks own headlights are magical, in a very scruffy and non magical setting.
She discusses many interesting topics internally with herself from the cause and effects of her own bulimia, her career as a journalist and minor celebrity and of course, her new found love interest.
This review does not do it justice.
The book is short, poetic, written as stream of consciousness and uses a lot of free association.
I totally loved it.
The first chapter had me thinking 'what the heck have I started' as the reader is thrown without warning into the schizophrenic viewpoint of the first person; bulimic, confused but highly intelligent. There begins her journey with a young, man, a truck driver, the kind you could meet at any day in the downtown areas of Tokyo.
It is her language, and her self exploration that captured me. Her descriptions of snowflakes, town lights and the light of the trucks own headlights are magical, in a very scruffy and non magical setting.
She discusses many interesting topics internally with herself from the cause and effects of her own bulimia, her career as a journalist and minor celebrity and of course, her new found love interest.
This review does not do it justice.
The book is short, poetic, written as stream of consciousness and uses a lot of free association.
I totally loved it.
September 12, 2007
I'm not going to lie...I judge books by their covers, and in the library where most books are covered with grey cloth, this one stood out. This book is the junk food of contemporary Japanese fiction. Deeper books exist. A free-lance Japanese journalist takes a chance for once in her life and joins a young trucker (that she found attractive at first sight) for a few days as he travels around Japans. Some racy stuff happens. I did not feel particularly enlightened by this book, but I did succeed in entertaining me. Note: the title refers to the comforting vibration of the running semi truck that the journalist feels throughout her trip with her trucker friend. If this book was written by an American I bet it would be a lot different and maybe even scary, but it is not, and it remains a story about new experiences and "love" at first sight.
April 9, 2013
I really thought this would be about THAT vibrator....:-) Wrong, wrong. Maybe not completely, as different things rattle different girls' chain. Funny thing that I'm also in the middle of reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's Sacrd Plant Teaching, which talks about another kind of vibrators as well...
I really like the premise of this book, as I could identify very well with Hayakawa Rei's feeling and disillusionment. But maaaan, this girl had it much much worse than Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov. It is really a tiring read. Good thing that it is just over 100 pages and you could only read it in one sitting. Once you have to get up, I don't think you'll pick up the book again.
I really like the premise of this book, as I could identify very well with Hayakawa Rei's feeling and disillusionment. But maaaan, this girl had it much much worse than Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov. It is really a tiring read. Good thing that it is just over 100 pages and you could only read it in one sitting. Once you have to get up, I don't think you'll pick up the book again.
February 26, 2022
Claustrophobic novel by a young Japanese author. The title refers to the vibration when the mobile phone rings, which is the only connection left to the world for a bulimic, lonely young woman (a freelance writer, so an insecure "freeter"). But one time she feels attracted to a young truck driver with bleached hair she happens to meet in a convenience store, and joins him for an impromptu ride to Niigata, embarking on what will be a life-changing journey where she (re)discovers her emotional life. The novel was made into a raw psychological film by director Ryuichi Hiroki with Shinobu Terajima and Nao Omori, which is also strangely uplifting.
October 6, 2014
I would characterize Vibrator as a stream of consciousness novel told from the mind of a woman suffering from a fairly significant anxiety disorder.
It was uncomfortable to read in places, perhaps because the panic-attack feelings it invoked were a little too close to home sometimes.
How did I feel about the book? I read it all in one sitting, because it is short. It kept my attention. It didn't really go anywhere, but I suppose it ended up in a better place than it started, somehow.
It was uncomfortable to read in places, perhaps because the panic-attack feelings it invoked were a little too close to home sometimes.
How did I feel about the book? I read it all in one sitting, because it is short. It kept my attention. It didn't really go anywhere, but I suppose it ended up in a better place than it started, somehow.
October 2, 2017
my aunt saw the title of this while I was reading it and gave me a questioning look. I also saw that some reviews said the title could have been vibration(s) instead of Vibrator but I think it's about the guy, not the situation.
I really enjoyed this. it's like nothing I've read before but I'm glad I read it. I opened my eyes to life in some way.
would definitely recommend.
I really enjoyed this. it's like nothing I've read before but I'm glad I read it. I opened my eyes to life in some way.
would definitely recommend.
June 9, 2017
Another one-day-book that so sweetly took me on a maybe not so sweet journey today by the pool. Intense, anxious beyond understanding, sensual, unique and anxious again... some sort of happy ending that doesn't really seem to fit but we can hope. The book flows but it is on strange waters.
September 17, 2014
Beautiful and haunting.
December 25, 2016
A great little novel. Dare I say a more sexual, more claustrophobic version of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.
November 19, 2017
Starts out bad, then becomes worse (gross sex scene), but ultimately turns into a readable and interesting road-trip.
December 22, 2018
Initially found the style of this a bit chaotic, but I did warm to it. Short read at 130 pages, but packs in a lot of ideas.
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February 16, 2024To me, this book represents the longing of a single woman who wishes for someone to rescue her from her problems. The truck driver is that someone for her. But he's no fairy-tale prince; he has a criminal past and present, he's married with a child, and he cheats on his wife. She knows their paths will soon part ways. Yet, in their two days together, she experiences a kind of emotional escape. She drinks only once despite her alcohol dependence, vomits only once despite her bulimia, and doesn't work. The sex scenes are written the way a woman desires, feeling desired by a man and achieving sexual satisfaction herself. The truck driver is sensitive, considers her needs, is strong, and can protect her from external threats, but he would never abuse that strength to harm her. The vague writing style at the beginning appeals to me, but unfortunately, it becomes clearer and clearer as the story progresses. Due to the storyline, this evolution is necessary, but it happens too quickly and too obviously for my taste. It's like being served on a silver platter that her life will likely continue as before after this encounter. I would have preferred a more subtle hint at that.
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August 3, 2020
Giving up. A boring and repulsive character is in a corner store and through flashbacks we find out things about her. The book is in the first person and our narrator revels in how gross and crazy she. Nothing happens and nothing happens and nothing happens. Then she meets some guy. And I don't care.
She has bulimia and she is an alcoholic and she hates women magazines even as she writes for them and she's hearing voices because she's that far gone. And we circle and we circle and we circle again.
It's only 130 pages but I can't be bothered to read them. Stopped somewhere in the 30s.
I bought this because I was looking for Japanese horror novels. How did this end up on someone's list? It's not horror. I don't know what it is. And they made this book into a movie? (So says the inside cover of the book.) Yikes.
She has bulimia and she is an alcoholic and she hates women magazines even as she writes for them and she's hearing voices because she's that far gone. And we circle and we circle and we circle again.
It's only 130 pages but I can't be bothered to read them. Stopped somewhere in the 30s.
I bought this because I was looking for Japanese horror novels. How did this end up on someone's list? It's not horror. I don't know what it is. And they made this book into a movie? (So says the inside cover of the book.) Yikes.
September 24, 2024
Una mujer que se disgrega de la “realidad”, que vive en un mundo paralelo forjado en su cabeza, con trastornos alimenticios y delirios mentales, conoce a un conductor de tráiler con quien emprende un viaje… Quizá se me tachará de heteropatriarcal, pero aquello de “retrato chocante y sexualmente explícito” que se menciona en la solapa luce muy disminuido en esta autora; basten obras como las de Palahniuk o Easton Ellis para verdaderas efigies chocantes, y Miller y D. H. Lawrence (¡escritos casi un siglo antes que esta novela!) para lo explícito.
Algunas pinceladas en cuanto construcciones narrativas, algunos momentos en las reflexiones de la protagonista, pero no mucho más. Si Mari Akasaka fue la mejor escritora japonesa del año 2000 (según el jurado del Premio Noma), los albores del nuevo milenio estuvieron muy alicaídos y exiguos para la literatura nipona.
Algunas pinceladas en cuanto construcciones narrativas, algunos momentos en las reflexiones de la protagonista, pero no mucho más. Si Mari Akasaka fue la mejor escritora japonesa del año 2000 (según el jurado del Premio Noma), los albores del nuevo milenio estuvieron muy alicaídos y exiguos para la literatura nipona.
March 27, 2025
Vibrator comes across as an internal dialogue,at times almost a mind's ramble jumping from one dark topic to another from the life of Rei Hayakawa, the main protagonist of the novel. A troubled journalist fighting depression, bulimia and alcoholism, embarks on a journey with a truck driver whom she met outside a family mart.
The writting is beautiful and Michael Emmerich translated the book so well that i was tempted to read the book in Japanese. It's an intense and enthralling narrative which is both engaging and disturbing at the same time.
For me the book wasn't a leisure read ,hooked me till the end.. the beginning was a bit heavy, the middle ( when both of them meet) and the end was good.
The writting is beautiful and Michael Emmerich translated the book so well that i was tempted to read the book in Japanese. It's an intense and enthralling narrative which is both engaging and disturbing at the same time.
For me the book wasn't a leisure read ,hooked me till the end.. the beginning was a bit heavy, the middle ( when both of them meet) and the end was good.
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