The book, while emblematic of his short work in particular, doesn't break new ground like his recent novels, 1Q84 and Killing Commendatore, but it's an enjoyable read that goes down easily. Cats are scarce, but a sophisticated talking monkey fills the feline gap. The eight stories in First Person Singular, his first collection translated into English since Men Without Women (2017), are classic Murakami, filled with multiple recurrent obsessions - jazz, classical music, Beatles, baseball, and memories of perplexing young love. In book after book, his narrators (invariably male) draw us in with mystifying tales of odd experiences that even years later remain "permanently unsolved, like some ancient riddle."
His fiction, whether long or short, highlights life's essential strangeness and unfathomability. Haruki Murakami is a master of the mesmerizing head-scratcher.
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