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A review by sapphistoire
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North
Did not finish book.
I was so disappointed by this book! I love Hiromi Kawakami's writing but this was just so unlike everything else I've read by her and, even though they were short stories, they dragged so much. I quite liked the first one and it is in fact sapphic (after I said I really wanted a book with a sapphic main character from Kawakami!). It's very surrealist and strange but I was at least invested in it (and I loved the kiwis!).
I stopped reading the second one about 15 pages before the end because nothing was happening and there was a weird suggestion of incest. The third one I did start, but again it didn't seem to be going anywhere. It's a real shame I didn't like it but I've passed it onto my dad to read as it seems more like his kinda thing. I will still pick up Kawakami's other books in the future, as she has written two of my favourite books, but this just wasn't for me. I will say, if you like some of Murakami's stranger short stories, but don't like how he writes about women and sex, I do recommend this.
I stopped reading the second one about 15 pages before the end because nothing was happening and there was a weird suggestion of incest. The third one I did start, but again it didn't seem to be going anywhere. It's a real shame I didn't like it but I've passed it onto my dad to read as it seems more like his kinda thing. I will still pick up Kawakami's other books in the future, as she has written two of my favourite books, but this just wasn't for me. I will say, if you like some of Murakami's stranger short stories, but don't like how he writes about women and sex, I do recommend this.