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Apr 12, 2017tjdickey rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
In the words of one of his characters, Murakami here is "engaged in a serious search for the meaning of his own existence." The dreamlike imagery and inconsistent grounding in basic reality is very mysterious, challenging, and even a bit unsatisfying. Yet, as with the stylized gestural language of Noh Theater, or the unstated inferences and juxtapositions of Haiku, Murakami's text will move you in unexpected and subterranean ways, if you allow. A fellow reader tells me images from this book still come vividly back to him years afterwards...