Web of Stories Part 2: A Sonata for Murakami

Joshua Derrick
5 min readAug 12, 2022
Photo by Mark Tegethoff on Unsplash

Spring was late, and so was I.

Synopsis: A young Tokyo record store clerk falls in love in a chance encounter

The beautiful thing about Ghostwritten is that you can read every chapter as a short story. And honestly, not much of the meaning of each episode is lost thinking about the book in this way. But together they become some giant version of Haruki…

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Joshua Derrick

Every honest man puts his name to what he writes. Language learning, literature and biology. Blog transitioning to substack: https://deusexvita.substack.com/