I will be upfront and say I'm not sure I understood this book. I'm accustomed to brief, weird books in translation (most translated books seem to be brief and weird in my experience). But this is a weird, brief book NOT in translation. But it seems like some of the odd choices here could have been oddly translated. I'm all for weird, nonsensical books! But there doesn't seem to be enough here for me for even that to make sense. Or possibly with a focus on three similar characters and another three similar characters, this book is too brief to include all six of these characters. I'm not sure I understand the point in general... Sometimes books are fine without a point... and this book had some lovely, fun, memorable moments. So I guess I'll take those. If there was more to this book, I would have been more of a fan. ( )