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they finally got around to the thing that happens in literally the first two words of the blurb 😭

paraguayan history lesson? check. anti-colonial rebellions and tearing down conquistador statues? check. bricks of compacted marijuana? checkaroonie. and i'm only nine pages in!

a deaf, lip reading child from 100 years ago responding to an adult asking how old they are by frowning and saying 'your moustache is too big' is insanely funny

read memoirs by people you know personally with caution: my honours project supervisor describing a boyfriend "f**king her on the carpet so hard she laughed" is kinda crazy

dude why is literally everyone except alyosha clinically insane

THINGS ARE HAPPENING

this book has more peripheral anecdotes than actual story and i'm all here for it

the town is one of the coolest things murakami has come up with to date, i'm so invested

aleksey is a sweetie pie and could never do anything wrong

someone explain to me how fyodor pavlovich is at the same time the most likeable and the least likeable character in this novel

🧍mr murakami sir this is great and all, but where are my magics??/

there's some irony in the fact that it took me coming to tokyo to read this book. at least I recognise lots of the suburb names.