

The balance between the two is excellent. The overall plot is a fantasy, but the descriptive detail is incredibly real.

But the story itself has real power: it draws you in. You could pick it apart completely if you wanted to. Haruki Murakami, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2005Įarly in Haruki Murakami’s new novel, a character describes to an editor at a Japanese publishing house a manuscript of a novel that has come to his attention, and what he says sounds like a preview of the book we are about to read:
