SOURCE: Dalglish, James. “An Author in Search of a Story.” Japan Quarterly 43, no. 3 (July-September 1996): 90-2.
In the following review, Dalglish asserts that An Echo of Heaven can be viewed as a wholly original novel within the context of modern Japanese literature, labelling it as “a work riven with postmodern uncertainty.”
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