“ There are things in this world that can be changed and things that cannot be changed, and transience is one of the things that cannot be turned back. When you get this far, you cannot turn back. ”
Haruki, whose novels we are accustomed to reading all that is strange of flying fish and talking cats, presents us with this novel, which at first glance may seem ordinary, but once you immerse yourself in it, you will feel that you are living its details.
Hajime, the protagonist of the novel, describes the internal conflict, loneliness, loss, desire for change, love, lust, and all the feelings and desires that work in us as human beings, as he lives them together at the same time. The internal struggle is represented by his conflict between his heart and his mind between his childhood love and his girlfriend Shimamato, who was the accompaniment of his loneliness in his childhood and with whom he spent most of his free time listening together to the songs of the Night King and exchanging parties of conversation together and between his wife and his two daughters, who rules the mind to remain faithful to them and leave aside the desires of his heart.
238 pages
