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"Tokyo Tales" Author: [Japan] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
"Tokyo Tales" Author: [Japan] Haruki Murakami Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Tokyo Tales contains five short stories, namely, The Accidental Traveler, Hanalei Bay, Wherever I May Be Found, The Kidney Stone That Moves Every Day, and The Shinagawa Monkey. The most bizarre of the five stories is the last one, The Shinagawa Monkey. A young woman named Ando Mizuki suffers from a kind of "amnesia". She can't remember her name once or twice a week. After many twists and turns, she finds out that the "amnesia" is caused by a monkey... Although it is a "tales", Haruki Murakami still discusses metaphysical life issues in the novel.
Tan Tong Tan, Qi Tan means strange talk or anecdote. As we all know, the titles of Murakami's novels are mostly diversionary and evasive, but this collection of short stories is consistent, and it is indeed a strange story that happened in Tokyo. The novel highlights the mystery of human destiny through contingency.
In this collection of short stories, Haruki Murakami, as always, is still quietly dismantling the fence between reality and non-reality or between this world and the other world. He is still hovering over the subconscious kingdom like an eagle, searching for deeper and darker layers, and still trying to strip away the soul information and the subtleties of human nature from the mundane secular life.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Haruki Murakami (1949- ) is a Japanese novelist. He studied at the Department of Drama, Faculty of Literature, Waseda University. In 1979, his first novel, "Hearing the Wind Song", was adapted into a film. Subsequently, his excellent works such as "Pinball in 1973", "A Sheep Chase", and "Norwegian Wood" were published one after another. His creations are not bound by tradition, with novel ideas and free and easy writing, but not vulgar and shallow. Especially in the portrayal of people's loneliness and helplessness, he has more characteristics. He did not write this emotion as a negative thing, but sublimated it into an elegant style and a state of enjoyment through inner mental operation, so as to provide readers, especially those living in cities, with a lifestyle or life experience.
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