Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami

Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by karaokeyoga on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:27PM (#35810157)

I've read many of his books and short stories over the years, and would recommend "Underground", about the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

The English translation is, I believe, much shorter than the original Japanese, but I found its intimate descriptions of everyday Tokyo life contrasting with the terror of that morning powerful reading.

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Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by graderjs on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:35PM (#35810218)

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Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by minikomi on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:07AM (#35815545)

Seconding pinball 1973

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Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by karaokeyoga on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:54PM (#35810348)

Just read the Wikipedia entry for this book and can recommend it as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Murakami_book)

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Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by phlakaton on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:30AM (#35811212)

I have read and remembered exactly one of Murikami's stories, and it hit me like a giant earthquake: the short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo." I cannot recommend it enough.

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Re:Disappearing Act: The working life of Haruki Murakami by ZseeBrz on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:46PM (#35823123)

There is a very recent animation movie by Pierre Földes that kind of remixes his main tropes, but with Frog as the central figure intertwined with the guy and the cat from the Wind-up Bird Chronicles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Willow,_Sleeping_Woman.... I really enjoyed it, it’s like a mashup of his main works.

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