August 2022 Review #3 The woman in the Purple Skirt

 The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Written by Natsuko Imamura

About

A woman in a yellow Cardigan  sees a woman in a Purple Skirt and she starts to follow her because she looks like her. The woman in the Yellow Cardigan starts to change the life of the woman in the Purple Skirt without her knowing.

Review

I was extremely surprised with how short this story actually is. I didn’t expect it to be only 138 pages ( well this is what my tablet says). Imamura made the  narrator sound like she was a ghost because no one saw her.Even though the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan was stalking her, she really cared about the Woman in the Purple skirt. I thought this was very interesting because I have never read a book where the narrator is basically a ghost. I loved how descriptive this entire book was, as if the Woman in the  Yellow Cardigan watched every little thing the Woman in the Purple Skirt did. I found the ending to be shocking. Personally, I found this book hard to get into even though I enjoyed how descriptive it was.

 2/5 ⭐️

Info

Awards- the Akutagawa Prize

Trigger warning-  stalking, Manipulation, sexual violence, abuse, bullying,

Spice level- 0 / 5 🌶

Numbers of pages- 141(according to my tablet) 224 (according to Good Reads) 

Publish date- June 2021

Genres- Fiction, thriller, mystery