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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

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Murakami: A Western Novel

Murakami has been criticized by Japanese critics for not being Japanese enough. The way he goes aside from his description of like sometimes like dinners that are being cooked in you really would barely know that it's Japan for a lot of them. He doesn't want to limit it well so that the rest of the world won't think you're just a Japanese author. There's so much in here where's the description of her looking at herself in the mirror.

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