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Town Of Cats (2011)

by Haruki Murakami(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

The New Yorker

review 1: I read “Town of Cats” shortly after finishing “1Q84”, which is probably the wrong way to do it.Reading the story first as a part of a large novel, I saw it as an episode contributing to the big picture, a piece that would eventually help understand the wider context (or not) and set some details further into perspective (or not, again).Even in the novel it was one of my favourite extracts: about different angles, different views and layers we never recognise in each other. Rereading it as a stand-alone just showed me how well it works independently and how easily one can see the author even in the details of his work.
review 2: Rather than focus on the father and son dynamics, I was more taken with the relationship between Tengo and the short story he ... morewas reading. My impression was of two men in the clutches of a crippling uncertainty.I was drawn to the man in Tengo's book as much as to Tengo himself. They had both seen things they weren't meant to see, images that would trap them in a place where trains refused to pause for vanished men and mothers abandoned their sleeping babies. I was struck by the desolation of it all but relieved that although not both of them can get things right, Tengo was able to dig enough into himself to answer his own questions and board the train that the man in his story never would. It was a comfort to me that at least one of them was no longer "in a place he was meant to be lost." less

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