![]() ![]() I always felt that there was something about the narrator’s relationship to the Rat and J’s Bar that Murakami wasn’t telling us. J’s Bar, we learn, is where he and a character called “the Rat” used to drink when they were younger. He doesn’t visit J’s Bar in real time rather, he remembers having visited it in the past. ![]() This is the chapter describing the narrator’s visit to a place called J’s Bar. There’s this one weird bit, though, after the narrator leaves Tokyo but before he reaches Sapporo. The narrator’s daily life in Tokyo, the narrator’s sojourn in Hokkaido, the mystery of the sheep, and the philosophical musings on genius and individuality all come together into an interesting and compelling story. Pages: 130 (plus 15 pages of translation notes) Publisher: Kodansha English Library (講談社英語文庫) Publication Year: 1979 (in Japanese) 1987 (in translation) Japanese Title: 風の歌を聴け ( Kaze no uta o kike) ![]()
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