Title: Interesting build-up leads nowhere, real fast.
Product review: This book apparently won the Akutagawa Award, Japan's highest literary honour. How the judges deemed fit to place her in the company of such writers as Tanizaki Junichiro and Kawabata Yasunari is beyond me. The stories start off interestingly enough but the style of writing soon dulls the impact. Whether this is the fault of the writer or the translater I'm not sure but it is certainly distracting. The reader will find themselves being trailed behind some wonderfully imaginative stories, only to be abruptly dumped with a half page ending. I was left with the impression the the author had built up these grandiose fairy tales and was at a loss as to how she was going the come up with an ending. Very unsatisfying.
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