I did NOT like this book. It was one of the most boring books I have ever read. Once in a while there was a really nice line or passage, but overall it was filled with long and repetitive descriptions that felt increasingly useless. The mood of the entire book was just depressing, too, focusing on this man who is getting older, his friend who is dying, and describing all the ways his parents died and people in his neighborhood died. I got literally no satisfaction out of reading this book.