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...seller. The novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home - shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood - and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained...
...novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home?shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood?and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power...
...youngish, hip, history-oblivious fans, this is Japan. More than previous Murakami novels, Kafka embraces nearly the entire Western canon, with learned digressions on Beethoven, Schubert, Chekhov, T.S. Eliot and pantheons of ancient Greeks. It's an education in a box, much like the small but mysteriously well-stocked Takamatsu library where Murakami's young Oedipus finds a job as live-in caretaker...
...drove wife and daughter to decamp years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams? And did he really kill his father? Typically, Murakami leaves strands untied, though a shaken but wiser Kafka returns home to be "part of a brand-new world...
...British pavilion, there was a dizzyingly impressive retrospective of Bridget Riley's op eyebinders, and the slender, stark sculptures of Phillip King-possibly the only man alive who has successfully united the minimal and the baroque. In the Japanese pavilion, the most promising young artist was clearly Jiro Takamatsu, 32, whose large-scale pastel platforms were built on weird exaggerations of Renaissance perspective, aimed at destroying the balance between real and imaginary worlds...