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A review by kikix2
Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro
5.0
Rating: 4.5/5
This book was a pleasant surprise, it wasn't what I expected at all and the synopsis got a lot to do with it. When you read the synopsis you may think this is another love story between high schoolers, but it's more than that. I even dare to say that the love story in this book is not even the main plot but a secondary one.
Our protagonist, Sugihara, does a lot of introspective about identity, nationality, his purpose in life and his relationship with friends and family that --at least for me -- make this novel more of a self-discovery that a romance one. Don't get me wrong, the romance between Sugihara and Sakurai is well written (the hotel scene broke my heart completely), but Sugihara's monology was all I could focus on.
All the discrimination cases present in the novel shooked me. It made me realize that Latins or Afro-Americans aren't the only ones that suffer racist altercates. Even people so "alike" could suffer as well, only because of something so insignificant as a piece of paper that determines that you belong to a certain land that you may have never even stepped a foot into.
I think that this book should be read without reading its brief, and without knowing the first thing about it. Let it surprise you and take your time reading it. You'll see that is worth it.
This book was a pleasant surprise, it wasn't what I expected at all and the synopsis got a lot to do with it. When you read the synopsis you may think this is another love story between high schoolers, but it's more than that. I even dare to say that the love story in this book is not even the main plot but a secondary one.
Our protagonist, Sugihara, does a lot of introspective about identity, nationality, his purpose in life and his relationship with friends and family that --at least for me -- make this novel more of a self-discovery that a romance one. Don't get me wrong, the romance between Sugihara and Sakurai is well written (the hotel scene broke my heart completely), but Sugihara's monology was all I could focus on.
All the discrimination cases present in the novel shooked me. It made me realize that Latins or Afro-Americans aren't the only ones that suffer racist altercates. Even people so "alike" could suffer as well, only because of something so insignificant as a piece of paper that determines that you belong to a certain land that you may have never even stepped a foot into.
I think that this book should be read without reading its brief, and without knowing the first thing about it. Let it surprise you and take your time reading it. You'll see that is worth it.