What a fascinating and odd novel. I’ve never read anything quite like it.
Vivid characters — Aomame, the gifted assassin and Tengo the underachieving genius mathematician / writer. Mix in blank-faced and dyslexic Fuka Eri, the cult, the Little People. A meandering and mind-exploding story. Murakami’s language is deceptively simple. The reader falls into the story, not realizing what they’re in for. I ended up loading this novel onto my phone so I could read it in bits and snatches. I was continually caught off balance by the various twists and turns.
I loved all the little threads that intertwined throughout and how in the end they made perfect sense.
Hard really to explain this novel. I am sure there are people who would throw it against the wall only 50 pages in, but I was entranced.
