Abby, who suggested The Wind-up Bird Chronicles as,“the first Murakami to read,” also suffers from this Murakami Craze and is fanatical about her favorite author. Also, I would say that there is a definite “Murakami Craze” surrounding his many novels, mostly fictions. Murakami, who became a writer in his early thirties, has many awards under his belt. I had never heard of Murakami before and I was in the middle of reading Bolaño and Cixn, two authors that, like Murakami, came to me translated from other languages. My friend, Abby suggested I read Murakami several months ago, and to be honest, I didn’t think much of it. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami follows the story of Toru, a thirty-something, unemployed, regular guy, on his decent into a labyrinth of eccentric characters, Japan ’ s suburban landscapes, and vivid dreamscapes. Do you like normalcy? Do you like your regular life, living day after day content in your existence? So did Toru Okada, until the day his cat didn ’ t come home.
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