Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai Hardcover – September 10, 2016

I really enjoyed this book. It's a conversation between--as the title suggests--Haruki Murakami and Hayao Kawai. They talk about a plethora of things, such as writing stories as an act of healing, therapy, social constructs, and a lot more. Anyone who is an avid reader of Murakami will find this piece to be very fascinating, as it goes through some of the inner thoughts of the writer in a very candid yet sincere conversation with a brilliant psychologist. The only thing that peeved me a bit was the translation: although I'm grateful for such a work to be translated into English, I feel like some of the translation seemed very clunky and hard to grasp. Either way, this is a great book, worth the buy.

Whether it was the subject matter, the translator or the lofty philosophical topics, or a combination thereof, It was an obtuse, dry ,static series of monologues and dialogues . I have read over thirteen Murakami works to date, both fiction and non-fiction and thoroughly enjoyed his thoughts, his observations, characters, his often outlandish settings. I plan to continue reading Murakami . I'll consider this one an ill-advised work that maybe should have been a highly edited magazine article. Not a book.

This is a gem of a book. It allows the reader to eves drop on a conversation between two thoughtful men with deeply creative minds.

I really enjoyed the conversation between too very thoughtful human beings.

good product