Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind ― Guardian Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is…
A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original ― Guardian Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem ― The Times This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths ― New York Times
'Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories' - Neil Gaiman
