RaveThe Japan Times (JPN)[A] complex story dressed in an easy-going style ... Oyamada’s writing is often described as Kafkaesque, and while this can be lazy shorthand for \'strange,\' it is an adjective that accurately applies to The Hole ... The Hole is concerned with the plight of women in Japan. In fact, you couldn’t ask for a more concise, moving and subtly angry study of the pressures and expectations placed on women by Japanese society ... It takes a writer of great talent to mold the banality of the everyday into the stuff of art, and to build an entire world around a metaphor other writers might quickly deploy and cast aside, but Oyamada is in complete control of her talent.
