This week, Sam, James and Eyad discuss the first half of Kafka on the Shore and Haruki Murakami, a writer who we all loved at some point in our lives.  Join us on Reddit where we tackle some of the novel's biggest questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod/comments/haea0g/contemporary_japanese_fiction/

References

2004 Paris Review Interview https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fiction-no-182-haruki-murakami

1996 New Yorker Interview https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/12/23/becoming-japanese

Reading of Murakami’s “On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One April Morning”

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/152/crush/act-three

This is the second novel in our Postmodern Japanese Fiction series. Want to read along and join our discussion?  Join our book club on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod

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