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Men without women murakami review6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet despite the forlorn situations and the dreary settings, the best of these stories hold the excitement of a quest: These odd episodes of awakening desire show men startled into an awareness of how they have shorted themselves on life.Įxperienced Murakami readers will not be surprised to find here some of the trademark features of his earlier works of fiction: 1) nothing much happens 2) two people are often discussing a third who is not present 3) Murakami loves Franz Kafka. The stories mostly take place in Tokyo’s noodle shops and cheap bars. Only their jobs and their casual affairs connect them to the world. We meet numbed-out widowers and serial womanizers and robotic bachelors. ![]() In the seven bleak stories that make up “Men Without Women,” Haruki Murakami introduces us to men whose lives appear to be an emotional desert. ![]()
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