Haruki Murakami

I read an enchanting article this weekend in the New York Times magazine on Haruki Murakami. I've always been fascinated with his writing style and his home, Japan.

Murakami's work is a unique form of fiction that draws heavily on his life in Japan, his dreams, and imagination. He blurs the lines between reality and fiction and context switches in ways I've never experienced before as a reader. The author of the article describes his work  as follows:  "Murakami’s fiction has a special way of leaking into reality. During my five days in Japan, I found that I was less comfortable in actual Tokyo than I was in Murakami’s Tokyo — the real city filtered through the imaginative lens of his books."  I'm looking forward to reading his new book 1Q84 and it's just arrived today from Amazon.