Something animated for ya: a rendition created by Jason Casteel of one of the covers of Haruki Murakami’s 1997 novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル).
Murakami is one of my favourite Japanese authors and though I was enchanted by The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I will always champion Kafka on the Shore (2002) as his best work.
Words can be practically useless at times, but as a writer they’re all I have
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| — | Haruki Murakami/ Underground. |
I walked along the river to its mouth. I sat down on the last fifty yards of the beach, and I cried. I never cried so much in my life.
I brushed the sand from my trousers and got up, as if I had somewhere to go.
The day had all but ended. I could hear the sound of waves as I started to walk.
I brushed the sand from my trousers and got up, as if I had somewhere to go.
The day had all but ended. I could hear the sound of waves as I started to walk.
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| — | Haruki Murakami/ A Wild Sheep Chase. |
In just this way, one day at a time, I learned to distance myself from “memory”. Until that day in the uncertain future when a distant voice calls from out of the lacquer blackness.
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| — | Haruki Murakami/ A Wild Sheep Chase |
