Murakami's Watanabe, Kizuki, Naoko, and Hatsumi are poignant. They either go to death or are haunted by it. In "The Moon and the Mediterranean", the protagonists are obsessed with finding the color closest to the morning star between moon blue and Mediterranean blue in the magnificent sunset. They indulge in each other's youth and fall into eternal old age. They have no time to take into account the entangled reality and are preoccupied with seeking the other side or redemption. In this novel, only part of Watanabe's name is used as a mark, and the names of others are different, but its creation is full of mourning for the protagonist of Murakami's tragedy.
The main tone of the article is not cheerful, but the author's ingenuity lies in the fact that he cuts Naoko into a pair of sisters. When Naoko's decisive tragic character is presented as two characters, the two girls are allowed to bear Naoko's pain. After the two girls share Naoko's pain equally, the author provides a guide for them to finally reach a happy ending.
Similarly for Kizuki and Watanabe, the fire that devoured everything gave them a perfect connection, allowing Kizuki to finally obtain earthly happiness in Watanabe's body.
This novel is the author's painstaking effort to a certain extent, because for those lovely characters written by Murakami, who said pain was their destiny in their hot youth.
At the same time, the novel itself is also a suspenseful novel. It is basically the author's original plot, but only borrows the personality of the protagonist of Norwegian Wood. Sometimes it's eloquent, sometimes it's sudden. The change of time and narrative method presents the multi-layered reality of the story, which also makes the article more twists and turns and full of suspense.