Yukiko Motoya

Et eksotisk ægteskab

Eva Ströberg

Yukiko Motoya - Et eksotisk ægteskab / An exotic marriage
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Reading Japanese book usually means your brain is ready to hop into an adventure, a whole new world where the narration is strange (to you), the culture is different, the story is unusual. This book is no exception. Although it’s no stranger than Sayaka Murata’s works (her works remain the strangest I’ve read so far), it’s still making me uncomfortable.
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People say when two people are together for a long time, they begin to look like each other. Both in the way they act and also in appearance. 
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The main character, a typical housewife in Japanese household, began to worry when she looked at herself in the mirror that she started to look like her husband. Her worry was somehow mixed with the neighbouring woman’s problem with her cat that is just won’t stop peeing everywhere in the house. What to do about it? She tries to find her own way of doing things, but the husband acts strange and stranger everyday, and treating more like her property. 
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This is a story about marriage, but full of symbolisms, not sure I got the underlying meaning of everything but strange story (and entertaining) nonetheless.
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Et eksotisk ægteskab

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