My third Hole novel, and I think the third time I’ve at times found aspects hard to follow. It may be a fault in me, the writing or the translation; hard to say. Somtimes the distasteful attitudes of characters continue to be hard to differentiate from the author’s; it’s hard to shake the feeling there’s something unpleasant about the author’s viewpoints - but there’s also enough about plot and characters to keep me coming back.