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...mail critiques Murakami received and his 1,220 replies. Kafka has become a best seller in Germany, South Korea and China, and now the English-language version has become a U.K. best 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...
...which he says is one of his skiing strengths. He started racing young. "It's a very elemental sport," Miller told TIME at a recent race stop in Kitzbühel, Austria. "You're using just gravity to get down the mountain and trying to cut down on friction and wind resistance and air. It's pretty pure...
...provocative in positing a saintly Asian destroyed by ignorant Europeans. (Possible caveat: the villain, Nellie's brother, is a white man tainted by the Yellow Peril - opium.) But its most interesting subtext is the Code of the Kiss. In movies of the day, the hero was destined to wind up with the first woman he meaningfully kisses. Man and wife share several intimate scenes in their bedroom, but they never kiss. Late in he film, Gerrit surrenders to his old amour and plants a passionate one on Nellie. It seals their fate - and, terminally, Taou Yuen...
...whose stock has flatlined since the company acquired Compaq in 2002. AOL's merger with Time Warner (parent company of TIME) may have set a new standard of paired futility, erasing some 80% of the merged company's stock value. After the hype subsides, more often than not, investors wind up with tax write-offs...
...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...