砂の女

I loved the premise of the book. Both the book and movie are exceptional. But my enjoyment of it suffered because it was way, way too hard for me.

It wasn't the extensive vocabulary - and it really was extensive, from geology and entomology terms to everything under the sun. It's that this book reminded me of my early days of learning Japanese, when I truly thought the language was vague. So many sentences in this book felt vague, even when I had looked up all the words and reread them again an

The movie adaptation is quite famous and very good, but the book is great, too. I do love myself some surrealism, and this is more or less the only book i've reviewed delivering on that.

A man gets trapped in a pit of sand, together with a woman living in that pit. We follow him as his thoughts spiral into all sorts of strange delusions, and he tries to escape time and time again. Totally unique and a fascinating take on routine, on accepting (or resisting) the deck of cards dealt, on finding t