If you hadn’t guessed by the title alone, “The Man Who Died Seven Times,” by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, is a strange book. Whether you enjoy it will depend on a couple of factors.
In 1995, Kyutaro (“Hisataro”) Oba is a 16-year-old Japanese student with a unique condition: He gets stuck in time. As a child, he began to notice that certain days were repeating themselves, including meals, conversations, and events. No one else was conscious of the repetition.
