Theme: surreal loneliness, metaphysical longing, memory and music as portals.
Classic Murakami, but maybe a bit more out there than you might expect. Detachable spirits and talking cats populate the pages of this enthralling journey involving the intersection of two unlikely characters. It’s a wild ride!
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Magical realism’s cathedral where solitude made mythic across generations.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Nostalgia and melancholy when love as both balm and wound.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The haunting of reality by its own image; an early blueprint for a simulated world.
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Philosophy through sensuality; the dream of freedom weighed against the gravity of love.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Metaphysics and academia collide; thinking itself becomes an act of time travel.
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
A labyrinth of memory and trauma where the mundane becomes otherworldly.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Ordinary people granted impossible second chances — the tenderness of regret.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
