Series: The Rat
by Author Haruki Murakami
Pinball, 1973 (1980)
"Pinball, 1973" is Murakami's second novel, and one that hasn't been released outside of Japan... the only available translation is for Japanese students learning English, and the version I read was based on that one.Is that perhaps why this Murakami book felt different to me? The book was less p...
Hear the Wind Sing (1979)
I just finished reading this book a few days ago. In fact, I've finished it three times in the past couple of weeks. Hear the Wind Sing is, alas, almost impossible to buy, unless your name is Rockefeller or Gates. My friend from Taiwan raved about it - a Chinese translation - saying it was way be...
Dance Dance Dance (2002)
I have finally read a Murakami. I picked this up on a market stall and didn't realise it was part of a series until I listed it on GR and saw "The Rat, #4", but it works as a standalone story, albeit an intriguingly odd one. In conjures exciting unease and bafflement. It is a book of paradoxes an...
A Wild Sheep Chase (2002)
This is not an easy book to read, review or discuss. You will either love it or hate it (more likely - never read it). I liked it. The swirling, kaleidoscopic imagery with freely overlapping of the physical and the metaphysical, the real and the imaginary, the utterly sane and the completely cuck...