Murakami meets the supernatural

1. The book has a very open-ended, many questions remain unanswered.

- That's right. On the other hand this is in part 1 of a trilogy is not necessarily surprising.

2. It is learned only superficially about the narrator

- That's also correct. I see that we have no direct negative. The further one reads the book, the more you realize that it does not depend here on the characters. Throughout the book no names are mentioned. Persons are named only in their functions (biologist, anthropologist, etc.). Without going to want to anticipate too much: For me, does exactly the magic of the book from. Everything is vague, blurred, not tangible, until you realize losing in Area X itself. I think this effect would be to precisely and in detail described more characters in your way.

So much for the negative criticism.

I came by pure chance on this trilogy and want less talk about the content, as much more about what I felt while reading.
As the title says: Murakami meets the supernatural. The style reminds me actually something to Murakami. I can describe it difficult, but who has already read Murakami, will understand how to be slowly sucked by its style in the world of the book, not knowing to be suddenly confronted with ever more small shifts to our reality.
For whom this book is now something?

Who reads Murakami to be under the spell of his worlds of reality and fiction, is likely to have this book his joy. But you have to say that the story has its scary moments. No horror, but it is the tingling of the incomprehensible, enigmatic.
Another parallel seems to me the morbid aesthetics of the series American Horror Story to be.

Short, who has an open imagination, feel free to lose in stories and also the charm in everything that deviates from reality, looks, which I can highly recommend this book.