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Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Monkey, Confessions of a Shinyawa Monkey

The title is confessions of a shinegawa monkey. Do you think we should see the monkey as a kind of metaphor for an outsider in society? Yes, i think that's definitely there and maybe for anyone who's been rejected from a given world he or she once belonged to. The author can have one way of feeling about things, and the readers can come up with their own interpretation if they want to,. which is fair.

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