The Love We Share Without Knowing, (Paperback)

from kougogo

Barzak's second novel (after the great One for Sorrow) is a profound disappointment. It is a novel in interconnected stories, with protagonists either Japanese and American. All though are equally adrift and apathetic in their existences. All are unlucky in love (one man is put in an enchanted sl...

from faganjc

Set in Japan, focused on suicide. Hauntingly beautiful, but I didn't enjoy it. If someone else really liked it I would understand why.

from UnderMyAppleTree

This is a difficult book to describe. Each chapter is a seemingly separate story. When taken as a whole, they are interconnecting stories of love, loss and renewal linking the lives of strangers in Japan and how fate affects each of their lives. Eventually the stories make their way full circle. ...

from alexdallymacfarlane

This is a beautiful book. Told in a series of interconnected short stories, mundane and fantastical events in the lives of locals and expats in Japan serve to awaken them in some way to problems/potential in their lives. It's not always explained what lesson the characters will take from what's h...