Not what I expected, but still engaging and intriguing. Having read other Murakami works it was a strangely jarring for so many characters including the protagonist to have names (I think his lack of names actually works in the surrealist world he creates). Quote I liked: “ These disgraceful articles of clothing looked as if they had been forced to accept an unfair portion of the world’s exhaustion and burdens. If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa’s clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, I would still not want to do it.”