The Wind-up Bird Chronicles...

Continuing my run of Murakami titles... This one was probably the most conventionally structured in terms of magic realism novels. It reminded me a bit of The Zahir, although I thought The Wind-up Bird Chronicles was far superior. Basically, mysteries increase throughout the novel, until they reach a point when they start folding back upon each other and converging.

I've got a bit of a theory about how this works.

Suppose you had to write an interesting scene about a bus ride. (  More behind cut )