This is a story that will make you think about your own life and how much you’ve done and what makes life worth living. Its simplicity in execution, but also the struggle of the protagonist as he looks back at a life and what he has accomplished. It’s written with very simple, plain language and I think that is also its biggest strength. I just couldn’t put this book down and was enthralled by it. Just like with love this finiteness gave it its shine.” ~ page 73 The end would inevitably come, we realised this, yet we lived. Yet, people fall in love, knowing full well that the end is inevitable. Of course the Devil wouldn’t be the Devil if the deal was crooked. The protagonist of this story has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor and only has at most a few days left to live, but then the Devil shows up and offers him a deal: Make something disappear from the Earth and you’ll get one more day to live. It’s been on our shelves for half a year or so and when I was browsing through our home library I decided to finally give this book a read! When we came across this book, I was instantly drawn to it and we really wanted to have it. Later I started watching anime too and I’ve always loved the way the Japanese can tell a story. I grew up with SEGA and Nintendo consoles and often the videogame producers that I played games from where Japanese. Japanese (pop)culture and stories have always been a part of my life.
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