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iamajellydoughnut 's review for:
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
by Keigo Higashino
"These fictions within fictions and systems within systems create a hall of mirrors that reflects the manipulations of Higashino's characters, whose plots rise and are submerged before our eyes.
Journey Under the Midnight Sun isn't a whodunnit or even a whydunnit but a what-exactly-is-being-dunnit. It is also an extraordinary work of popular fiction. You could read it as a potted history of modern Japan, an exploration of a crumbling social order (gender, class, money, obedience), a ludic literary puzzle that plays with genre expectations."
-SCMP
A crime epic, and a deconstruction of the genre as a whole. If I could always and only ever read books like this, life would be fantastic. How insidious a story, and how brilliant because of it! The way the story twines its roots over the span of 20 years, and characters fall in and out of the path of the two, "the goby and the shrimp," the myriad storylines that circle and ensnare each other, my late realizations of the causes and effects of actions taken and events transpired.