Macaron Daisuki na Onnanoko ga Dounika-Kounika Sennen Ikitsuzukeru Ohanashi.
The Tale of the Macaron Loving Girl who survives somehow for a 1000 years.

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This book with a long name has been recently published in Russia in attempt to promote the genre of light novel, which is relatively new for our reader.

Though I enjoyed the book, I can't say it's the best choice for the purpose. The stories are bizarre and they do not even try to have any logic or explanations in them. It is very like a child's narrative of "this happened and than that happened" and I mostly have dropped the book because of this, but I had nothing other to read or do at the moment and after I managed to get through ... the first, say, twenty pages, I got used to it and it even started to seem charming in its own way. I suppose, that it is kinda the author's style. It also makes all the sad twists so unexpected. In the afterword the author says she considers that all the stories have a happy ending, but, let's say, it's a debatable opinion.

The four stories are ever-so-slightly connected, but can be read separately. I recommend the second and the last stories the most. In the second story, where nothing fantastic happens apart from one of main characters deсlaring she is able to speak to concrete, the author's naive storytelling highlights all the sad moments and makes story somehow far more deep than if told more seriously. I hope that the author considers writing more stories like this one.

The art is fine, but just... normal. Nothing special about it.

This book reminded me very much of a compilation of short stories "A Perfect Day for Kangaroos" by Haruki Murakami, which was my first insight in Japanese literature some 13 years ago. It has the same absurd and fairy-tale-like storytelling style, so I felt nostalgic.

Overall, a nice book, if you can stand the style.

The light novel consists of 4 stories based on one formula: the main character wants to see again a dear person.

The author Karate wanted to show the happiness that you experience next to the one who is close to you, evoking empathy from readers. But this task is impossible to achieve with any story. And the reason, it seems to me, is in characters. None of the main characters causes sympathy and compassion.

The second story was almost successful: a mortally ill boy understands the value of his life thanks to friendship. And, wanting to see his girlfriend again, stops neglecting his condition. Other stories cannot ... reach such a development of characters. Macaronia from the first - just eats macaroni and waits for 1000 years while humanity is dying. The alien from the third (who almost killed humanity) - mans up and proposes to his girlfriend, along with whom he destroyed the planets during dates. And the nameless protagonist from the fourth - will also experience the joy of friendship, but without a deadly illness and generally interesting history.

As a result, we have stories that do not cause any feeling except boredom. The stories themselves are not super awful, just VERY weak. It is better to read something else.