More perplexing questions, but his discoveries do shed startling light on the In his quest, Toru only succeeds in raising Veteran of Japan's war in Manchuria, a perfectly corrupt politician, and a strangelyĪppealing well in a neighbor's yard. He bargained for: a precocious teenager, a pair of psychic sisters, a haunted Toru sets out to find out where they went and why. Immediately followed by the disappearance of the wife, herself. The story begins with the disappearance of Toru Okada's wife's cat, which is This experience more deeply, or expressed it more powerfully, than in his mostĪmbitious work to date, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. And nowhere in his impressive body of work has he explored Japanese that they have lost the clear sense of self, the firm identity, they A central theme in Murakami's work is the feeling among many With the Japanese in part because his characters seek their culturalĪnchors abroad. Wood sold an astounding four million copies). Trappings of the West makes Murakami highly accessible to westerner readers, andĪccounts, in part, for his tremendous popularity here.īut he is even more successful in Japan (his elegiac Norwegian When one of his characters puts on an album it is British or American pop (heĮven named a novel after a Beatles song).
When one of his characters makesĭinner, it is just as likely spaghetti as sushi when they read a novel it is Will generally be familiar to western readers.
Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature references Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation,īut at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his nativeĬountry.
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