3 books
Haruki Murakami
You know Murakami’s going to be weird, you just don’t know if you’re going to like the flavor of weird. I loved 1Q84. What’s more romantic than one moon hanging in the sky? Two moons! The book—and it’s a long…
Haruki Murakami
Toru Watanabe hears a Beatles song on a plane and is thrown back to 1969, to a Tokyo university, and to two women. Naoko was his dead best friend’s girlfriend, fragile and receding into a sanatorium in the hills. Midori…
Haruki Murakami
Toru Okada is unemployed, boiling spaghetti, when the phone rings. Then the cat disappears. Then his wife does. What follows involves a psychic prostitute, a teenage neighbor, a politician brother-in-law with something badly wrong in him, and a man who…
