When she was 25 years old she suffered from “the Tale of Miu and the Ferris Wheel” (12), and her hair became white and lost half of her, then she stopped playing piano. After she abandoned studying and playing piano, she had taken over her father’s trading company, but then her husband and brother did main business, and she became a merchant of wine or something and a coordinator of music as her own private business. But her father fell ill and she suffered a mysterious occurrence in a small town in Switzerland, she retuned to Japan and never touch keyboard again. Miu – A Korean married, beautiful, extremely lovely and slim woman, 17 years older than Sumire, born and raised in Japan, graduated Catholic strict but progressive junior high and high school, then studied at a music academy in France. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Sumire worked at Miu’s office and she was taken Italian private lessons twice a week. She wore an oversized herringbone coat, a pair of rough work boots and a black plastic-framed Dizzy Gillespie glasses to become wild and cool like a character in Jack Kerouac’s novel. She wasn’t a beautiful but had a certain charm.

But she wrote every night by a word processor, but couldn’t complete a novel. She dropped out the University in the sophomore year to be a novelist. After she graduated from a public high school in Kanagawa, she entered a little private college in Tokyo the narrator was enrolled. She was named by Morzart’s song the Violet. Sumire (Violet in Japanese) – A friend of the narrator, 2 years younger than him, and the narrator was in love with Sumire. 62) He loved Sumire, but she had no romantic feelings. He enjoyed read novels but studied history, because reading novels is his pure personal enjoyment. He born in Suginami, Tokyo, and raised in Tsudanuma, Chiba. Narrator – A teacher of an elementary school. And he arrived a Greek island and went around monasteries of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rainy Days, Sunny Days (1990). Murakami lived in Greek in the late 80’s, he described the days in his first travel literature Far Drums (1990). 59) The main description of the first half of this novel is describing Sumire by the viewpoint of the narrator (like Nick Carraway in the Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald) and talks about Miu of which the narrator heard by Sumire. This novel is story about Sumire, and substantially main character in this novel is Sumire. But he has not been wrote a romance long novel again for now. When the time this book published, three of nine works of Murakami were romance. Also this novel is unusual romance novel describes today’s persons has no existence or reality who can’t love seriously and passionately.

Murakami’s 9th long novel, and third romance novel follows Norwegian Wood and South of the Border, West of the Sun, originally published in 1999.

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