Haruki Murakami's works are magic. I don't understand some of his books. But this particular short story is fabulous. When you go to unfamiliar place, you can't get out nor find a way to get out from that particular town. In my opinion, while we are still alive, we will see or know things even some of it we don't want to know about. Sometimes, we are trap in the reality. It's up to us to find the way out. Tengo and the boy faced the same issue. I really recommend it. since i love all of murkami's work it was no doubt that i would like this short-story as well. it is a good and rememberable story (although i think that might be because it is the first story of him i have printed out and read that way), although certainly not his best. the line: "if you can't understand something with an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation" might very well be true.
Murakami's short is extremely thought provoking and a major part of the novel I loved.
—sel
I recommend you take a trip to Murakami's Town of Cats.
—koko
That's a fragment of 1Q84 so.... who put that here?
—jenniredmond
only 991 pages to go when the 1Q84 comes out!
—thejkmanboy