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yvkhan 's review for:
The Nakano Thrift Shop
by Hiromi Kawakami
what i personally got out of it was a portrayal of relationships and their limitations in improving our lives and making them worth living, coupled with a constant mental and emotional reassessment of those relationships. kawakami beautifully encapsulates the melancholia of ordinary life in which moments of warmth are moreso salves that make up for ordinary pains than reasons to live in themselves. for hitomi, the world feels so distant and devoid of feeling. and yet, in a world of decay, something worth remembering still emerges.
some reviewers have noted the warmth of the shop and its community, which certainly does exist, but there is nothing idealistic about their relationships with each other. “I was so sad [then]”, Hitomi proclaims to a group of people she didn’t keep in touch with and only came to meet once again through impulse and coincidence. there are only stretches of nothingness dotted with miracles so isolated as to feel impossible.
some reviewers have noted the warmth of the shop and its community, which certainly does exist, but there is nothing idealistic about their relationships with each other. “I was so sad [then]”, Hitomi proclaims to a group of people she didn’t keep in touch with and only came to meet once again through impulse and coincidence. there are only stretches of nothingness dotted with miracles so isolated as to feel impossible.