Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: bounces between the hopelessly mundane and the searlingly violent

It's not hard to find novels these days that deal with personal ennui, national guilt, dreams, the supernatural etc. What struck me about this is the awesomely bizarre way in which all of these forces reinforce and interact with each other here. On the one hand you get moments of an almost suffocatingly sensible domestic life, and on the other hand, bits of hallucinatory violence and surreal-ish occurrences, though the juxtaposition between them kind of breaks down by the end (which might or might not be the point). I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I've never read any Japanese fiction before, and while that did not prevent me from immensely enjoying it, I can't help but think that I really don't have the proper background to fully appreciate it. The end of the first section though, damn, has to be one of the most harrowing, emotionally draining things I've ever come across in fiction