I hardly managed to complete the three volumes. It is a novel that has yet had good reviews, although I do not understand why. The story advance millimeter by millimeter, alternating perspectives and insights. It's a seemingly realistic story but pulls all the time towards the fantastic and the new age, all in a rather banal style and a lazy writing. It is this combination of lengths and flatness of style that makes it quite difficult to complete the novel. We should see what just translation, but I think the translator tried to imitate the original author's style. It may be paradoxical to write a novel is written 1500 pages lazily, but that's the case. The canvas would suffice for a single volume, but then there are endless fillings (how to cook the protagonists with all the details of the ingredients, how they shower, etc.), which are the incessant rehearsing an insult to memory if not the reader's intelligence, endless digressions that often lead nowhere, flat sexual episodes descriptions, psychological traits of individuals réexpliqués every 30 pages, etc. However, the three main characters Aomame, Teng and Fukaeri have something engaging and interesting, but it is diluted in the lengths. I do not understand, it seems that the author was paid to the line and wanted to make the volume accordingly while this is obviously not the case. Yet this novel has many enthusiasts, this is only my opinion. I advise the potential reader to buy first the first volume, to see before spending money for the other two.
