![]() In pursuit of his missing wife, Okada must go into the well in order to understand himself and take responsibility for his own past and that of his country. Lewis Carroll had his rabbit hole, and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has his dried-up well, a dark place that is very much a well of loneliness but one with transforming possibilities. Is Toru Okada just experiencing one more loss – the loss of his mind – or is he finally waking up to the world around him as he turns psychic detective on his own apparently mundane life? But late one night he receives a strange phone call and a visitor that turn his life inside out. A man alone and isolated in the big city. His whole life has become a kind of absence, and he is the void at its centre. ![]() T oru Okada has lost his job, his cat and his wife. ![]()
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