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Yoko Ogawa's writing manages to take something commonplace and familiar, or even something joyful, like a pregnancy, and infuse it with a sense of eeriness. There is a vaguely unsettling atmosphere throughout all three of the novellas in this collection. The reader's imagination does most of the work, and the text only feeds this imagination by highlighting slightly off details in an otherwise mostly familiar context.
What I found really interesting is that while the narration is in the first person, and we're very much (sometimes claustrophobically so) in the narrator's head, we still don't necessarily understand their motivations or inner thoughts - we just watch their reactions.
In terms of language difficulty, I feel this could be lower than the current L32. I'd recommend it to people just starting out reading novels in Japanese. The sentences are generally short and straightforward, most of the vocabulary common.