Milena Michiko Flašar

This is the story of an elderly Asian man whose kids are grown and is bored with his life and to some extent his wife. He meets a young lady on a walk who tells him about her job as a role playing stand in for people who need her at social gatherings. .She convinces Mr. Kato to do the same. So he has a job playing a family member much the same as he is playing family in his actual homelife. An interesting take on what we do in life to get by.

Bella idea di partenza, svolgimento eccessivamente patetico.

Some beautiful prose and nice on a micro scale. In a macro sense the book is a little strange.

The better - or perhaps just less bad - stories were in the last third. The next-to-last story, "Der Hund" has much too much dog vomit in it.