ah I'm glad you enjoyed it!! it's interesting to see your point of view as you were affected by an earthquake yourself, like this feeling that rest of country just goes on with their life. this cover is hilarious, i love it kek
You expressed so succinctly why some (definitely not all) of Haruki Murakami's fiction feels so powerful: he somehow talks about big complicated painful and confusing events precisely by not talking about them, and in doing so somehow reveals some nameless wordless truth about them. Norwegian Wood also does this really well wrt the late 60s student protest movement, I think.
ah I'm glad you enjoyed it!! it's interesting to see your point of view as you were affected by an earthquake yourself, like this feeling that rest of country just goes on with their life. this cover is hilarious, i love it kek
You expressed so succinctly why some (definitely not all) of Haruki Murakami's fiction feels so powerful: he somehow talks about big complicated painful and confusing events precisely by not talking about them, and in doing so somehow reveals some nameless wordless truth about them. Norwegian Wood also does this really well wrt the late 60s student protest movement, I think.