“Many of the stories hover between realism and surreal dreamscape. And Murakami’s voice — cool, poised, witty, characterized by a peculiar blend of whimsy and poignancy, wit and profundity — hasn’t lost its power to unsettle even as it amuses … Even the married men exist in their own private bubbles of disquiet and despair. Deep isolation pervades each story … The men of these stories are trying to have it both ways. It is not surprising therefore that they find themselves caught in the middle of nowhere. Murakami’s imagination is the luminous half-light of that common, contradictory country.”
–Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe, May 5, 2017
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