(via youmightfindyourself): Haruki Murakami Bingo
An email I sent today: “I mostly read Murakami novels for the descriptions of bento boxes.”
“There is also a tribe of magical beings called the Little People who emerge, one evening, from the mouth of a dead, blind goat (long story), expand themselves from the size of a tadpole to the size of a prairie dog and then, while chanting “ho ho” in unison, start plucking white translucent threads out of the air in order to weave a big peanut-shaped orb called an “air chrysalis.” This is pretty much the baseline of craziness in “1Q84.”
Oh my god, I need this book.
(Source: The New York Times)
“In Japan, “1Q84” came out in three separate volumes over two years. (Murakami originally ended the novel after Book 2 and then decided, a year later, to add several hundred more pages.)”
You should all be reading Murakami, by the way. Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are the two best books I’ve read this year. Were it not for The Blind Assassin, they might be the best books of my adult life.
