Vedant’s Reviews > The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle > Status Update

I’m finding this book enjoying despite its long length and lack of a plausible plot. This is how Murkami novels are. Its about ordinary people living ordinary life. However the narrator has this exceptional ability at looking closely at world and feeling it deeply. This is so much similar to Kafka on the shore

Apparently, horses are tremendously influenced by the phases of the moon—both physically and emotionally. Their brain waves go wild as the full moon approaches, and they start having all kinds of physical problems. Then, on the night itself, a lot of them get sick, and a huge number of those die. Nobody really knows why this happens, but the statistics prove that it does. Horse vets never have time to sleep...