![]() ![]() While all the stories are well-written and worth reading, they vary considerably in strength and impact. In fact, its variability nicely reflects Murakami’s career. ![]() The idea that Men Without Women makes for a perfect sampler of Murakami’s work does not make it a perfect collection. The awkwardness of the situation, and its significance, is only resolved when the narrator encounters the woman years later. Kitaru, who has failed the entrance exam, asks the narrator to go on a date with his longtime girlfriend, who he fears is leaving him behind. Similarly, “Yesterday” (see what I mean about the Beatles?) is a recollection of the narrator’s relationship with a co-worker, Kitaru, with whom he worked in a coffee-shop during his student days. For example, in “Drive My Car”, an aging actor recounts his relationship with a man with whom his wife - now deceased - had been having an affair, to the woman he has hired to serve as his driver. ![]()
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