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Murakami--a cool 48-year-old who once ran a jazz bar, has translated John Irving, Truman Capote and Raymond Carver into Japanese and recently taught at Princeton--has been perfectly positioned to serve as the voice of hip, Westernized Japan. His Norwegian Wood (note the Beatles reference) sold more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society...
...three-story 17th century palazzo in Milan and a 17-room villa on Lake Como. "For reading Proust I have my house on Lake Como," he said in 1993. "Here, in Miami Beach, I don't want another monastery to live in. I want a place to read Truman Capote...
...take the Truman Doctrine, the 50th anniversary of which we celebrate this year. It set the course of American foreign policy for a half-century. It took 18 minutes to deliver. That's about when the average Clinton State of the Union address reaches the "Let me begin by..." stage...
...Buscemi as Blondie's sister's main squeeze; and even an odd story line about a young jazz musician and the pregnant 14-year-old he befriends. Rounding off the historical side are various pleasant touches: one political makes a mistake about a friend's wife ("Oh, Bess is Truman's wife!"); Blondie takes Mrs. Stilton to an old-fashioned movie theater...
Because of the vision of the Truman-Marshall generation, I have been privileged to live my life in freedom...