Fit for those who want a dream-like surreal love triangle romance (Mixed with a woman falling in love with another woman.) that explores the complexities of what could be possibly love identity, and loneliness. Despite all the oddness, unexpected sexually charge scenes and unclear mind fuck shit happening in his stories, somehow a great number of people still keep coming back to him, I am one of them (new people still picking up his book) maybe because despite all the imperfections of his writings, his writings will almost always make you feel like the characters are human. You feel oddly human whenever you read his odd shit

Fit for those as well for people okay with open ended endings and what is describe in the content warnings

Murakami describes loneliness better than love and identity in this book. He shares his experiences of loneliness while at the same time letting you ponder and conclude for yourself what love and identity are because he never explains it clearly here, he just challenges you to think about it. 

And yes, he also hopes you might visit the islands of Greece sometime since he did so, and it is undoubtedly lovely place 

Last part of Murakami’s book will always leave you hanging but in a contemplative way

Content warnings: 

But as typical for Murakami writings, warning especially if you havent read him before 

 

Sexual content. He writes scenes that are either awkward sex or forbidden sex (male MC having girlfriend that is a married woman with a kid) or  both. 

And of course, what I think most feminist hate about Murakami, more than infidelity an sleeping with our women or thinking about another woman while have sex with a completely different one, is misogony. 

He writes the dark stuff that is prevalent during his time and rather inspire me (a male reader) to do misoginistic acts or thoughts or words it does the complete opposite for me. It made me see how terrible misogyny, infidelity, and other shitty things men can do and the consequences of such actions. I do think Murakami's intention is not to promote these acts but for the reader to realize in his own thinking while reading his works, is not the best way to live. 

But oddly, I have seen several women love Haruki Murakami's book despite such themes. Not sure if those women consider themselves feminist or not, but it does say something that writing about the dark stuff of human nature doesn't exactly promote or profilerate it further or make the writing terrible. 

 

Comment: 

I somehow unexpectedly fallen in-love with the tomboyish, bookish, argumentative main female lead that jumps from being a lesbian or boyish alternetaviely to the point you dont know if she is attracted with male person like you not:, Sumire. I didn't intend to and mostly the women in Murakami's novel although appealing and interesting to me that is why I like them, I never thought, I would fall in love with one. 

 

Hear me out. I am not going crazy and wanting her to become real and be my actual girlfriend. But I do sense I liked her more than the other female characters Murakami wrote and I dont know why. I guess the tombyish girl you know suddenly becomes pretty and lady like years later is more likely to smitten you compared to a girl that you met first time that has always been pretty or lady like to you for several years but nothing really change through out the years when you met her again later. (But reality people do change, not only their appearances but also their values and what they want to do in life, it is just more evident with Sumire in the story here. If you dont change after several years, then that might mean you are stifling your character development. But at times we cant completely stop changing ourselves, change is the constant in life and which make life beautiful.) 

Sumire means violet in Japanese which is lovely. 

 

It is also wierd the male lead/narrator/closed friend of Sumire in this story is only identified as “K” no official name 

It can either be Ken or Kobe or any name starts with K. But my subsconscious states that it is “Kobe” since my goddamn name is Kobe and I fell inlove with our very odd Sumire