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Article: In pursuit of the magic of the ordinary; Japanese writer Haruki Murakami explores the odd coincidences we so often overlook in daily life.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 29, 2006
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Byline: Heller McAlpin
'Artists are those who can evade the verbose," Haruki Murakami wrote in his last mesmerizing novel, "Kafka on the Shore," a metaphysical mystery that sucks the reader into an engagingly logical yet strange dream world. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Murakami's first collection of short stories in more than a decade, again demonstrates his fabulous talent for transporting readers and making "the world fade away" with a few short strokes of his pen.
As in his novels, Murakami's central fascination is with the essential strangeness and unfathomability of life.
"For some reason, things that grabbed me were always things I ...
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