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Title: beautiful but can't get past the sexism
Review: The aesthetic details of nature is poetic, the book is full of nuances. Full of existentialist narratives, I really appreciated the subtlety, but I can't get past how Shingo treats his daughter in-law like a concubine/servant. I must have counted a million times where he tells her to fetch his slippers or robe or whatnot...then when his son's mistress is pregnant, I get the vibe that he's more concerned about his rep and his grandson being born illegitimate, rather than the welfare of the woman and about to be single mother, who by the way was abused by Shingo's son, and Shingo seems almost passive to cast any reproach. And his constant thoughts of how his wife is not as pretty as her sister, how he settled for second best, and how his daughter looks even uglier than his wife, it's no wonder how disgruntled and indignant his daughter acts.Apparently, many things were lost in the translation, maybe a new edition/translated version should come out...
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