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A Wild Sheep Chase-Haruki Murakami

Published: 1982 (Kodansha) Setting: Tokyo, Hokkaido, Niigata Summary: In the third book of the “Trilogy of the Rat”, Murakami decides to blow it all up, in a good way. Our unnamed protagonist, I, meets a beautiful part-time call girl with magic ears, the secretary of the underground Boss of Japan, as well as the SheepContinue reading “A Wild Sheep Chase-Haruki Murakami”

Pinball, 1973-Haruki Murakami

Published: 1980 (Kodansha) Setting: Niigata, Tokyo Summary: In the second book of a tetralogy, and second in the “Trilogy of the Rat”, our unnamed narrator, “I”, is obsessed with pinball. This time, instead of a girl with nine fingers, he is seeing identical twins. Sweatshirt-clad and always willing to cheer “I” up, these ladies holdContinue reading “Pinball, 1973-Haruki Murakami”