![]() ![]() ![]() This is what a Murakami story does – with some jazz, The Beatles or Bach and Beethoven tuning inside your mind. And then a feeling of utter helplessness washes over as the realisation of nostalgia, fate and tragedy come to the fore together. It’s as if time stands still when the last line has run out, the last word read and the last letter comes to a stop with a sombre period. There’s something strange in the after effect of reading a Haruki Murakami story. Whether it is James Bond or Scandinavian noir, the idea is to celebrate bestsellers across the world and discover more about the unknown faces behind forgotten books.īookworm or not, we promise there’ll be a little bit for everyone, because after all, books are forever. So every month, we’ll write about a topic, an author or a series that catches our attention. If Haruki Murakami’s novels are about the stolen moments of life, his short stories are like episodes from a Richard Linklater movie.(Illustration: Shutterstock) But no matter how much we read, there are always dusty shelves and stories – real or fictional – that we still haven’t opened our eyes to. ![]()
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