![]() writes genre fiction-formulaic, conventional, with an emphasis on plot. The mesmeric pull of Murakami’s fiction lies in this tension between the narrator’s perfectly ordinary existence and this shadow world, which might reside in our subconscious or even in an alternate universe, where we are free to enact our darkest, most violent, most perverse fantasies. In fact, as we soon learn, Tsukuru’s obsession with death is only the beginning. In Murakamiland, death means merely traveling across a ‘threshold’ between reality and some other world. Then again, given the remarkable continuity of his fiction, nearly every Murakami novel feels like a new volume of the same meganovel, a vast saga that is now approaching 7,000 pages in length. Nobody else could have written this novel, or dared to try. ![]() there is only a single moon in the Tokyo sky. Though we know where we’re going, and must endure plenty of bumps in the road, the trip is rarely boring, his company is amiable, and we can rest assured that he will take us to strange places we’ve never been before, except perhaps in dreams. “Murakami is a charming travel companion. ![]() Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. ![]()
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