Books by Fuminori Nakamura
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English
review 1: Interesting story that begins with the revelation by 11-year old Fumihiro Kuki's elderly father--the only reason he had his son was to continue the Kuki family tradition of raising a child to be "a cancer to the world"; someone who will cause hurt, misery and unavoidable sufferin...
language
English
review 1: So it's really 4 1/2 stars, bc it drags for a bit during the last third with a little too much pontificating, but it recovers nicely. Fumihiro's a pretty fascinating lead, alternately depressed and desperate and cold (he reminds me a bit of the lead in Camus's The Stranger, that ...