The Last Children of Tokyo

Alba📚 reviewed The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada

Review of 'The Last Children of Tokyo' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

el vaig comprar perquè estava en la meva fase (encara en procés) de llegir autorxs de Japó i pensant que encara que fos de ciència ficció segur que m’encantaria i a més tenia una coberta preciosa (sempre caic per la coberta bonica). senzillament, crec que em costa la ciència ficció, però és una novel•la escrita des d’un futur molt inquietant on la gent gran no mor però en canvi, les noves generacions, neixen amb molts predisposició a la malaltia i a la mort. plena d’idees estranyíssimes de com seria aquest món distòpic.

he trigat molt en acabar-lo perquè el vaig deixar a mitges tot ser un llibre curtíssim.

Jarulf reviewed The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada

Review of 'The Last Children of Tokyo' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I'm very much a mood reader, I pick books to read depending on how I'm feeling. I'd just finished Red Sister and Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence and wanted something different. The Last Children of Tokyo was in my pile, and yes. Different.

It's such a slim volume (and beautiful), and I read it in bits and pieces over a day, mostly between house chores, but I had trouble getting drawn in. The sheer inventivness and the strangeness of this changed world the author depicts is fantastic, the characters and their peculiar situation interesting, but I was at all times aware that I was reading. I'm not sure this was because of the writing style or more due to the mood I was in.

Kain

rated it

Jan. 15, 2022

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