The Pachinko Parlour

Nothing happens in this novel.
But it's such a pregnant silence, fraught with history, shame, impostor syndrome, uncertainty and ultimately a broken relationship with the self, it becomes a hazy echo-chamber of a book, in which readers can actually feels on their own skin the hot and humid, disorientating Japanese summer, occasionally interrupted by the soft plinging and dinging of a pachinko machine.

4.5 stars.