Artforum, April 1st, 2005
WOODS LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP KAFKA ON THE SHORE BY HARUKI MURAKAMI, TRANSLATED BY PHILIP GABRIEL NEW YORK: KNOPF. 436 PAGES. $26.
At age fifty-six, with ten books behind him, Japanese author Haruki Murakami is now recognized as one of the world's important novelists. His reputation in the West rests largely on the success of his two longest and most complicated novels-Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991) and The Wind-Op Bird Chronicle (1997)-both of which display his fluid storytelling ability, his quiet wit, a portraitist's sense of character and place, and a unifying unders...
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