I'm married to a scavenger of sorts and he often totes home rescued boxes of books that I paw through with shiny, hungry eyes. I pull out the odd and interesting and add them to my teetering stack.
I read the English translation of this book and unfortunately the awkward style of the writing was far too strange and hard to read to really enjoy. I'm sure this lies more on the difficult job the translator had and not on the author, himself.