![]() ![]() The narrator’s quest begins when a well-groomed and inscrutable man visits the advertising agency at which the narrator works. It then jumps ahead two months to describe his present girlfriend, whose ears are mysteriously bewitching to him but who is an unremarkable convenience to him otherwise. The novel then jumps ahead in time the narrator is in the process of splitting up with his wife, for reasons that are never specified. The novel opens with the narrator’s discovery that a woman with whom he had a casual affair in college-and whose name he cannot recall-has been killed by a passing truck. The first part of the novel is relatively realistic, describing the narrator’s fragmented romantic history and rootless urban existence. He is divorced, childless, and has a girlfriend who moonlights as a prostitute, proofreader and ear model. The 29-year-old narrator of the novel, who is never named, works for an advertising agency in Tokyo and leads a lonely and regimented life. ![]()
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