Seven short stories by Murakami. All are interesting and a little odd, as anyone familiar with Murakami would expect. The stories feature men who are lonely and often wondering what has happened to their lives. The first story features an actor who befriends his dead wife's lover. We learn the story as he tells it to his new chauffeur, a young, confident woman who has been driving him since a problem developed with his eyes. "Yesterday" tells the story of two male friends who work at a coffee shop together. One wants the other to date his long term girlfriend. Why would he encourage such a thing?
Kino is a bar owner who is making a go of it after he walked in on his wife in bed with his best friend from his old job. The theme here shows itself in all of the stories.
This book is narrated by Kirby Heyborne who reads the translated stories as I assume Murakami himself would read them.
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