About This Novel
Japanese miscellaneous cooking - Murakami's taste of trivia and survival. Fifty "rather problematic" personal essays by the "rather problematic" Haruki Murakami. Murakami is a little lucky, a record fanatic, a sukiyaki lover, and in short, an idler who loves cats. This book has been serialized in the magazine "anan" since March 2000, spanning a year and including 50 essays. "Pizza", "records", "Rhodes Island", "Virginia Woolf", "donuts", these keywords alone are enough to attract the attention of all Murakami fans. Of course, it also includes many new topics, such as "Burned Bras", "Persimmon Seed Problem", "Carrot King", etc. Among them, "Chicken Sukiyaki", "Thick Roll Sushi", "Hand Roll" and many other topics related to Japanese cuisine, the entire collection of essays is full of Murakami flavor. What is particularly impressive is that it starts with "About a Suit", a memory of attending the Newcomer Award Ceremony of "Portrait" as a writer, and then examines "death", one of the main themes in Murakami's works, while quoting lines from Chandler's novels, and ends with "Saying Goodbye." "I feel that in the corresponding background and music, I was able to successfully say goodbye to the twentieth century from a personal perspective." (Say Goodbye) This last sentence shows that this book marks an important point in Murakami's maturity or transition period as a writer.
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Official(1)Scraped 3d ago
I didn't expect that Murakami was so cute when he was young, and he is so cute now.
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Official(1)Scraped 3d ago
I didn't expect that Murakami was so cute when he was young, and he is so cute now.
