SOURCE: “No Place I Was Meant to Be: Contemporary Japan in the Short Fiction of Haruki Murakami,” in World Literature Today, Vol. 71, No. 1, Winter, 1997, pp. 87–94.
In the following essay, Loughman analyzes the characterization, particularly of the narrators, in Murakami's stories.
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