Heaven

It’s such a great book. It’s a contemporary literature, the message is there, feelings are presented perfectly in the book. I would totally recommend to anyone.

Una historia muy emotiva, narrada de una manera sencilla pero bella.

This novel is hard to read at times, because of the vicious bullying that takes place at a middle school. The victims are a nameless boy with a lazy eye — and a girl named Kajima who keeps herself deliberately dirty for weirdly symbolic and philosophical reasons. The two victims become friends, a strange friendship born of weakness and suffering.Kajima’s musings about the human condition are quite bizarre, as is a long discourse by one of the bullies on why bullying is justified and perfectly natural. I wasn’t sure what to make of all this. But just as Heaven is hard to take, it’s also hard to put down.Mieko Kawakami seems to have a penchant for not giving her main character a name. I wonder, is this to let us merge with the character? Whatever the reason, never saying the boy’s name is a tour de force of some sort.I loved Ms. Ice Sandwich. Heaven is a far less comfortable read, but still compelling. Kawasaki’s characters are truly unique individuals — totally convincing and inescapably appealing.

Came demaged

great book, very excited to finally have it but sadly arrived damaged and was left behind a car