A review by katiecatlady
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I love Kawakami's writing so much, her prose is so poetic and mundane at the same time. She is so good at capturing the human experience in all of it's boring inconsequential moments, and yet also in huge philosophical ideas I never even pondered before.

I'm also very happy with how it ended. It ended in a similar way to Breasts and Eggs, in that the narrator finds happiness and carries on regardless of what they are told and large philosophies and theories about themselves. They just live their life anyway.

I also enjoyed the ambiguity of Kojima and her relationship with the narrator. Imo she sort of fetishized his pain and used it to justify her own in a way.
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