As of late my favorite writer has given many hours of distraction & even some conscious-raising: this writer is Haruki Murakami. Already having read what is considered his masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, as well as his most recent novel After Dark I am delving into Kafka On The Shore.

What mosts attracts me to the characters in Murakami’s are their sense of alienation, their existential search for meaning in a homogeneous modern world, and their down-right otherworldliness. I love it.

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