SOURCE: Maristed, Kai. “Faith Tangled Up in Reality.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (20 April 2003): 7.
In the following review, Maristed argues that Somersault is an “extraordinarily dense novel,” noting that Ōe's detached authorial voice distinguishes the work from his previous novels.
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