![]() Others, though, will be thankful that they don’t have to wade through quite so many pages. ![]() Some readers will consider the new book too contained and restrained, and will lament the fact that there is no denouement featuring a man wearing a goat-head (to be fair, there is a short digression about a man who carries death in a little bag). It’s a return, in some ways, to the territory of Norwegian Wood (1987), the relatively straightforward and hugely successful love story that made Murakami famous.Īt a mere 298 pages in its English translation, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is far shorter than his usual literary wanderings. But in his latest, stripped-down novel, we are mostly in the world as we know it – or at least as we think we know it – though there are, naturally, forays into dreams and the subconscious. Menacing creatures writhe beneath the Tokyo metro. A giant frog visits a nervous bank clerk. In several of his stories, that alternative reality takes on physical form. ![]()
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