Written by a Nobel Prize winner, combined with my love of Japanese culture, I thought this would be a winner. Unfortunately it was…not for me. The plot was incredibly dull, the characters had no development, there didn't seem to be any sort of purpose to the story at all. Occasionally the prose was lovely, but not often enough to make a difference.
Has anyone else read this? Am I just uncultured swine?
by isnotacrayon
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I read it years ago. I can’t remember much other than the prose being very elegant. The characters and plot don’t move or develop much. I was quite young when I read it too but the feeling I got was that the book was written as a meditation of Japanese life and its social constraints.