Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Excellent exploration .... of an adult survivor?

This was an excellent book: the quality of the writing, the compelling nature of the story, the mysterious and exotic characters. Although other reviewers, and the novel itself, point at an exploration of post-war issues particular to Japan, it seemed to me that what was driving Liza, and the story, were issues of boundaries, body vs. soul, objectification, attraction to death, questions of who one belongs to, and so forth that carry forward into adulthood following childhood sexual violation, whether it is remembered or not.