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"In Hoshino's dystopia, identities are fluid and any one is as good as another ... Hoshino's ambitious novel is pleasingly uncomfortable."--Publishers Weekly"[Some passages] surpass even Kobo Abe ... The author has leaped to a higher level."--Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Silent Cry, from the afterword"Tomoyuki Hoshino's ME is a daring literary triumph, unlike any book you're likely to read this year or any other. Inventive, absurd, and thrilling, Hoshino draws upon the work of a wide array of literary masters--Abe, Camus, Vonnegut, and Chandler--to create a character and world that's wholly unique. A thoughtful, somewhat surreal exploration of the darkest self-reflexive tendencies of this modern moment. I strongly recommend it.