People will believe anything if you whisper it.

Karl Kraus

Haruki Murakami, as I mentioned in my previous post, is one of my favourite authors. I know a few of you are going to say ‘Again!’ however, his writing has appealed to me from the very beginning.

As a child, I was a huge fan of all kinds of anime (mostly romantic fantasy comedies), and Sailor Moon was my number one on the list. After school, despite my poor physical condition, the route that I normally finished in 20 minutes, on the day of the premiere of a new episode, was cut down to 10 minutes, and although I felt my body dying due to the unusual for me movement activity (like wild dogs were chasing me), I gave it my all.

In the environment in which I grew up, I was, to put it mildly, a bit of a freak. Yes, I was aware of this so I hid the bigger eccentricities in case someone noticed. Being incredibly shy I tried to fit in despite my partial mistrust of a very conservative Catholic world. Now I’m an adult and I realised that back then I withdrew from a lot of things and gave up on myself.

Now, hundreds and hundreds of years later I have an unmistakable crush on H. Murakami’s writing which I discover in Austria in one of the antique shops across from our small flat (Kafka on the shore cost me 1€) and I am still a freak, very proud of it.

Fascination captured me almost from the first page. Of course, those who have experienced his writing have learned that right at the very beginning of each of his books you are drawn into a whirlwind of the story and find it hard to tear yourself away.
The peculiar atmosphere of mystery, the wonderfully unusual and strangely familiar characters (I’m not a weirdo as I thought I was, so refreshing) as well as the surreal magic-filled stories that blow away your silent night and crush your imagination.

All in all, I get extremely excited at the mere mention of the next book, which doesn’t change the fact that I like to go back from time to time to the one I have read before in hope of discovering something new that I might have missed.
My favourite titles (my prrrrecious ♡) which I sincerely recommend include Kafka on the shore, A wild sheep chase, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

What can I say in conclusion? I hope that another juicy bite from my beloved author will appear soon, and wish everyone a bit of an unrealistic atmosphere and a magical confusion of the senses after reading one of his works.

So, hurry up, and get one for yourself from the nearest bookshop, or library (maybe it will be quicker if you order the ebook?). You certainly won’t be bored.

Yours L.