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[DeepL Translation - needs review] First place in the 2021 Honya Taisho (Bookstore Grand Prize). Long-awaited paperback edition. Special story Includes a newly written novel by Sonoko Machida. The 52-hertz whale is the only whale in the world that calls at a high frequency that other whales cannot hear. Nothing can reach it, nothing can be delivered to it. Therefore, it is said to be the loneliest whale in the world. Therefore, it is said to be the loneliest whale in the world. Kibo, a woman...
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(4.17/5)Lives up to the popularity
The story flows really well constantly keeping you interested, and the writing style is consistently descriptive while also being easy to follow. Also a sense of mystery as it switches between present day and past flashbacks as you try to figure out what happened.


A bit tough to read in multiple ways
The core of this story is about a woman who was abused as a child, and had some other traumatic experiences during young adulthood. And how she finds some salvation as an adult, after moving to a new town and meeting a abused child there.
This can be tough to read about! At times I wanted to just give up and go read something else, because descriptions of people being awful and abusive to each other are just not fun! If I'd researched this book more thoroughly ahead of time, I would not have pi