The h murikami story City of cats in the current new yorker is one of the best I've read from him in some time. This story pulls together in a woven strand some of the elements And qualities that have made murikami's stories so distinct and memorable : the lonely male protagonist estranged from family , professionally successful , w western tastes , as well as elements of the fantastic and surreal. In some of M's more recent stories the supernatural has seemed to me awkwardly shoehorned in to resolve plot elements but in this one M uses the supernatural as both realistic plot device and symb : protag goes to visit estranged father in nursing home father doesn't recognize him it seems tho maybe father just refuses to recognize. Son reads story aloud abt young man who gets off train and finds self in city populated only by cats and no way to leave all trains just race thru station not seeing him -mAkes us think there may b other worlds we all pass thru wout seeing which there are and also that son in this story is speaking of himself
leading a secret life and unable to learn the truth abt his fa - he suspects his re fa is someone else someone his mo had an affair w - he Asks his fa but gets only cryptic answers and must settle for that - as in all life - and all M - stories : there is seldom a single answer or explanation.
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