Okay , so it took me a while to read this book even though its only 144 pages long , I think I found it slightly boring , but it was on a interesting subject , but it was slow . so you are following Mumei, a sickly child, and his great-grandfather Yoshiro , as they cope in a life that seems to go on forever , Yoshiro is now over 100 years old and he still goes running in the park with a rent a dog ... , the children nowadays are born poorly and weak , and always needing that little extra care . They don't have Electricity or mobile phones . food is scarce . and sometimes living is just not fair . But not only are the old age destines to live forever , but they are destined to watch their great grand kids die . The whole of Japan is separated from the rest of the world . as Japan closed its borders because of their problem . After a terrible cataclysm Japan is pushed back on itself and there is also references to Shinto, Buddhism and Japanese myths and folktales . Also language is closed off from the outside world and changes in isolation, with foreign words disappearing and kanji changing meaning . Mumei is very lonely and it is hard for him to use his legs . He ends up in a wheel chair later . Its a lonely and depressing story , slow in places and sometimes boring at times . but the story topic is of interest and I pushed on through . but glad I had finished . I give it 3*/5*
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