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Moves at a languid pace. Weighing in at over 1,000 pages it's a collection of 3 books. It meanders, takes odd tangents and closes in on itself in ever tightening concentric circles. It could probably be rendered in a third of the length but I never found myself begrudging it's heft.

Simple and straightforward in its prose, perhaps due to translation. It's the story of Tengo, a cram school math teacher and budding writer and Aomame, a fitness instructor and part time assassin. Two divergent lives slowly, inevitably drawn together (