Murakami hinted this would happen with his tiny excerpts from Air Chrysalis which also just. by the final few pages I put it down disappointed at the abruptness, the multitude of loose ends, the explanations that failed to come. It was a book that grabbed attention, slowly built characters and linked them together through coincidence and Fate yet. It was a book that commanded my time in a comfy chair over a few hours. The story is curious, idiosyncratic, dystopian, fantastical, overtly sexualised - all this and more over the course of some 900 pages. There is somewhat of an authorial soliloquy around page 178 where he has Tengo utter phrases like: "The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form." The ability of the author is plain to see even if he indulges in a bit of narcissistic lecturing on what it takes to be an author, I feel he's earned the right to comment given his technical skills at authorship. I was handed the single volume binding of this trilogy by a friend and delved into it with curiosity as I had never read anything from Haruki Murakami.
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