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08-09-2009, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Seanus View Post
I'd like to read some Murakami. I gather that he won yet another prize this year. What is his main thematic focus? I heard that he likes to cut against the grain of the mainstream and is highly original. Sounds like my kind of guy.
I'd say abstract. and Psychological. His characters tend to do a lot of soul-searching in sort of unusual ways and often his main characters are ordinary, boring people pulled into very very odd situations. I think in some of them his main character didn't even have a name.
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