![]() ![]() “Why does somebody who was born and raised in Tokyo go to the trouble of learning the Kansai dialect and speak it all the time?” Why indeed? If you are a female Murakami character, you are likely to be disaffected and a little lonely, though no more passive than any of the males: things happen to Murakami’s people more than they make things happen. ![]() If the title story pays homage to Hemingway, there’s nothing much Hemingway-esque about any of the players except perhaps a world-weary resignation to the way things are, as well as a few odd affectations that may not mean much to non-Japanese readers in the story “Yesterday,” for instance, one character speaks a dialect from a region that isn’t his own. If you are one of Murakami’s male characters, you do what you can to be different: sure, you sleep around and drink a lot of whiskey, but you also read books and listen to music, especially his beloved Beatles, who provide two of the seven chapter titles here. ![]() “Our relationship isn’t exactly…normal”: as ever, a glimpse into the strange worlds people invent by the always inventive Murakami ( Absolutely on Music: Conversations, 2016, etc.). ![]()
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