“Hyperrealistic. . . Okada captures the ennui that has paralyzed a generation.” — New York Times Book Review
“So richly layered and strangely beguiling that we are left craving more. . . Samuel Malissa’s translation has fizz and verve, and each slangy meditation or exchange rings true. . . The stories are at their best — and their most baffling — when Okada topples our expectations and proceeds by way of surprise steps and wrong turns.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Nothing short of superb… This book gives me hope for the future of Japanese literature… there is power in the flow of this writer’s prose.” – Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
