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A truly remarkable book giving a unique insight into a culture that prior to reading this I did not know anything about.
I'm not going to say that the brilliance of the book is it's plot line or story as there is nothing particularly special about the story itself. What makes the book so good is it's descriptions of the japanese culture. Although it is a work of fiction I probably learned more from reading this book that I would have done from many factual books I'm not now going to claim to und ...more
I'm not going to say that the brilliance of the book is it's plot line or story as there is nothing particularly special about the story itself. What makes the book so good is it's descriptions of the japanese culture. Although it is a work of fiction I probably learned more from reading this book that I would have done from many factual books I'm not now going to claim to und ...more
Feb 28, 2012
Claire
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Nov 13, 2013
Lea
marked it as considering-reading
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