Really loved the setting and the story
Mar 12, 2025
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It’s by Kazuo Ishiguro. I love the style of writing. It’s sensitive and exciting and relatable. I also enjoy the philosophy behind the story that unfolds. And of course, the way it unfolds!
Dec 15, 2023
About a group of adolescent boys who reject conventional morality and view the world of adults as sentimental, frivolous, and pathetic. One of the boys, Noboru, discovers a hole in the wall in his bedroom adjoining his mother’s, and uses it to spy on her throughout her new relationship with a sailor named Ryuji. At first the boys idolize Ryuji, thinking that he is the only adult who isn’t a “sellout” marred by the problems of the adult world, and Noboru comes to feel that the ocean is the only meaningful thing in the universe and is the only real connection he has. Eventually, the boys lose faith in Ryuji and come to see him as just as fraudulent as all other adults, and decide to do something as a group to assert their place in a world they can’t abide.
“Assembled there were the moon and a feverish wind, the incited, naked flesh of a man and a woman, sweat, perfume, the scars of a life at sea, the dim memory of ports around the world, a cramped breathless peephole, a young boy’s iron heart — but these cards from a gypsy deck were scattered, prophesying nothing. The universal order at last achieved, thanks to the sudden, screaming horn, had revealed an ineluctable circle of life — the cards had paired: Noboru and mother — mother and man — man and sea — sea and Noboru…”
May 21, 2025
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less talk of ears, but equally abstract in mood like Murakami. If you like the crime genre, In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami is excellent (pacing, mood etc.). Turned my day to night.
Mar 27, 2024
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The live from London version on ytube is amazing
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