You’re standing in an open field, listening to the birds, watching the crop sway. And then, without warning, a train hits you from the behind. There are no horns, no warning signs,… heck, there isn’t even a train track! The Murakami phenomenon hits you like that. ‘After the Quake’ was my first experience of...
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Once you are through with “A Wild Sheep Chase”, you could wonder why Murakami bothered to give this novel a name. No character in this story is referred by a proper noun. Well almost no one, except an uncurious cat who finally gets one. “I”, a divorced twenty-nine year old lives a humdrum life;...
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Think of all the emotions that darkness possibly brings out in you, and you’ll find them all in this book. Fear, lust, loneliness, adventure, secrets, lies… the works. The worst part is, it’s not palpable but vague, ambiguous. I give Haruki Murakami one thing, though – he can awaken the beast of dread in...
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This book by Haruki Murakami is a lot more intriguing than what its title conveys. Kafka on the Shore is a metaphorical passage spanning across life’s tragedies and tribulations, attempting to throw questions about death and the metaphysical world which we, as day-to-day people, tangentially touch every now and then. If the above paragraph...
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