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My brother gifted me this back in November, but I'm glad I waited til break to read it. Felt bizarre how much the details resonated generally or even specifically with my life:
- UIUC, and specifically my current town Urbana
- Polynesia (although I've mainly been studying Polynesian languages, not the actual land)
- French, which I started learning last January
- AI (my advisor and I have had several discussions on this)
- Friendship among two avid readers of different cultural backgrounds, one of whom introduces the other to Go (subtle nod to my buddy Tanfu who taught me the game last January)
- Taoism, about which I just started reading this week (also at Tanfu's recommendation)
- Lady Wisdom. Literally YESTERDAY at church the pastor discussed Proverbs 8, of which verses 22-31 Powers inserts into the funeral scene before closing the book
Brutal. Well written and provocative, but for my money, gratuitous. I want to read more Ōe
Feel like I lived in France, I can see why a bunch of stuffy yet maybe sensitive literary critics awarded this the Pulitzer
Honestly 3.5 stars but it gets bumped up for the great writing in the final chapter
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