Michael’s Reviews > The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle > Status Update

We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close we are able to come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami poses this question in chapter two. This question, in my opinion, sets up the unfolding of the characters relationship with one another.