I try my best to avoid using clichés in these sales pitches, but what can I say except this book is a truly heartwarming novel with friendship, love and loneliness at its heart. In her late thirties, Tsukiko is living a solitary existence in Tokyo, until one evening...
Written in the nineties, this book's matter of fact approach to difficult moral issues will still not appeal to all, perhaps even more so now in the era of #MeToo, but the characters of Sui and Kazami especially are compelling, and the writing has a meditative quality...