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Murakami's fourth book, and in it he's mastered the ability to create real-life adjacent worlds. He had dabbled with this in A Wild Sheep Chase but goes all in here. Call it magical realism if you like.
Returning to the Dolphin Hotel to search for an old lover of years past, the main character gets drawn into some kind of portal that reconnects him with the Sheep Man of past books. He also reconnects with an old classmate, now a movie star, who shared a scene with his ex, Kiki, in a movie that h ...more
Returning to the Dolphin Hotel to search for an old lover of years past, the main character gets drawn into some kind of portal that reconnects him with the Sheep Man of past books. He also reconnects with an old classmate, now a movie star, who shared a scene with his ex, Kiki, in a movie that h ...more
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Excellent Murakami as usual. Very similar to other works: lost/disappearing/strange women, contentedness, mystery, magical realism, no cats this time.
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