In front of you is the book of the most extravagant Japanese writer, in the critics’ and reading public’s opinion, among those writing today. Perhaps it is Haruki Murakami who has finally managed, in his novels, to connect the East and the West, Zen philosophy and jazz improvisation.
“… he spent his life in a café where the endlessly annoying hard rock would always blare. Four times a week he would get drunk, and on the other days he simply watched the rain through the huge windows of the skyscrapers. And then someone told him that if he didn’t find the Sheep—one single Sheep in the entire world!—they would kill him.”