6/23/2023 0 Comments First person singular book reviewThat doesn’t keep him from stealing the name of his love interests though. In Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, the monkey contemplates love as he gives the author a body scrub and tells him over a beer that he values the memory of having loved. With the Beatles is a story about fleeting memories and a critical message disappearing. In On a Stone Pillow you read how an object has the power to bring back memories and in Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova a fantasy becomes a dreamlike reality. FORMAT: PAPERBACK A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird. I graciously applied this wisdom as I wondered why I had to read the story The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection. You don’t have to worry about unexplained, illogical events it’s not about the principle or the intention. This story ends with the life lesson that you don’t always need to know what is happening or what something is about. You don’t have to agree with me, but that’s the meaning it has for me. Instead, we are treated to a meditation on circles: what does it mean when a circle has many centers but no circumference? I don’t know what Murakami (or the rest of the world) means by this, but to me it seems like all people are at the center of their own borderless lives and as such there are many centers, just as Murakami himself is at the center of this book. The first story, Cream, goes a step further by not even letting the supposed encounter happen.
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