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Andrea Lee Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Man Who Burns Down a Barn

Nobu, i think that marcami makes it fairly clear that barnes are kind of, you know, his metaphorr for what he actually likes to do is destroy things. He's so frustrated by the failure of the man to burn down one of these barns that he thinks he might as well just do it and inhabit the other man's psychosis. The narrator certainly has sensed her innocence, her openness to experience in life. And the the creepy boy friend also has, as been attracted to this. That's why he says he's found a, a superb barn,. You know, the best barn. Because she does, that's her genius, is that she’s

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