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On a summer holiday when she was nine years old, a girl was murdered. So easily - by a murderer who was too innocent. Thus begins the nightmarish four-day adventure of two young siblings over a single corpse. One crisis after another. Can they outwit the adults? Where should they hide the corpse? The debut novel by the precocious talent Otsuichi, who has astonished the horror world with his depiction of terrifying children and his innovative storytelling.
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(3.81/5)There are two stories in this book, both dark (but not too much), but otherwise very different in style.
The titular story is written in very plain, unadorned language, and the descriptions are so matter-of-fact that they feel naïve, simplistic. I initially thought it was because the author was very young when he wrote it and hadn't found his style yet, but the second story, much more elegant in its narration, put the lie to this assumption. I'm now sure this was a deliberate choice to fit the
Creepy but slow...
Japanese do creepy well, but I would have liked the stories to be a bit shorter/compact. I felt there was a lot of filler, but it might also just feel long, because my reading speed isn't as fast as in English or German. ^^;