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Read something else by this author instead...
The problem with this book I think is that it's just too long (nearly 700 pages of densely printed text in my copy) and it feels like a slog to read through. It's an interesting idea to structure the novel as a sort of journalistic examination of the mystery with interviews with lots of people who were affected by it, but in practice it means that the author keeps introducing new groups of characters, giving them massively overdetailed backstories, and then moving on to a new group of characters in the next chapter, never coming back. I stalled out reading this the first time through, and I'm pretty sure if I hadn't had the book club schedule to force me to read a chapter or so a week I would have stalled out again the second time.
Miyabe has written much better books than this one: try レベル7 for "what the heck is going on" mystery, or 火車 if you want a side order of commentary on social issues.