For the first time I don’t feel like putting any rating. Because sometimes you read books not the right time and you just don’t get it. 🤷🏻‍♀️
The characters remained for me faceless and without any distinction. I usually will connect to one or two characters and that makes the book interesting to me. While reading this book it was very hard for me to remember who was who, and it isn’t because the characters had Japanese names, I have read a lot from different Japanese authors and I could remember the names. In this book the characters were merged, no personality, nothing. Just people.
I don’t even remember how the book started. And the way it ended I was like “and?🤔” And I think the whole time I was wondering what the author is trying to tell me. My previous book was so intense, full of surprises that I was waiting on something grand and vivid, but no, that did NOT happen.
I was discussing this book with my sister (she has recommended this book to me) and she said that sometimes books like this show a simple life. Most people don’t have over the top life, 99% don’t experience “Romeo and Juliet” type of love. We wake up, live, go to job, have some sort of relationship, we will marry, have kids and die. And maybe people you will live with won’t much care about you. And I agree with her, that this book shows a typical person, living a typical life.
The book was overall melancholic.
I will read something else from Kawabata.
I think this book isn’t for everyone, so I don’t know if I will recommend this book or not.