Read from August 28 to September 24, 2013
This review contains spoilers. If you wish not to know
anything about this book before reading it, which I see best for you,
then please don't read that.
I thought that this novel was written by a Japanese author, as his name indicates, that it was translated from Japanese into English,
and that I'd see more of those Japanese names inside of it. However,
the author turned out to be British, the novel was originally written in
English and there were no Japanese characters.
But there actually was another kind of people
who solved normal ones' health troubles by gradually losing their own
short lives. So you might imagine my feelings towards all this, or you
might not. I, myself don't know what to make of it.
It seems
intereting but then it feels wrong. You want to feel bad for them, but
when you see how they are dealing with it without drama, you just accept
their death without grieving for it. You see that there is soul within
them, but you can't help noticing how cold they treated each others at
times.
So those poeple are clones whose only mission in life is to donate their organs to real life
poeple; otherwise they are in charge of being the donors' carers or, as
I might call them, entertainers. Kathy is one of these latters. She
tells us through this book the story of her short life, that will
"Complete" whithin eight months or so. She tells us about Ruth, Tommy
and her other friends, being children and slowly growing up into adults,
and learning more about themselves in this prossess.
The story was intriguing, but the monotonous writing style kept making me want to close the book after only reading a few pages.
