[DeepL Translation - needs review] The 25th Haruhiko Oyabu Award Winner
Winner of the 25th Haruhiko Oyabu Award.
The 6th Miraiya Novel Award, 1st Prize.
Nominated for the 44th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award.
The deeper you dive, the more you overlap yourself with the main character, and the more you are saved and pierced by Dr. Asaba.
I finished reading the book in one go, hoping that it would not be broken, as if clinging to a ray of light in the dark depths of the sea.
It is imposs...
A Good Challenge
This novel is about Tachinana, a man in his late 20s who doesn't have much going on in his life besides working for a copywriting company. One day he's tasked to spy on a music school for two years, taking advance chelo classes and recording each season.
The copywriting and legal jargon of this novel makes it a good challenge for advanced readers. It did have one thing that really annoyed me, which was half the conversation was in quotes while half were in description text. It would have been very difficult to keep track of what was spoken and what wasn't without reading along with the audiobook.
The story itself is fine. It was honestly a breath of fresh air to not have a story about a troubled genius who finds passion thanks to a girl. But the mysterious "trauma" that stops Tachibana from playing chelo when he was a kid felt like a weak plot device. Tachibana is such a wet blanket that there wasn't much gripping me in the narrative, but I'm glad I finished it.
Good if you're interested in music and legal jargon. 3.5 stars