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The six tales in Haruki Murakami's captivating anthology are set in 1995, just after the devastating Kobe earthquake, when Japan first realised how fragile its way of life was. A location where the human and the inhuman collide, however, is where Murakami's characters experience upheavals that are even more profound and enigmatic.An abruptly abandoned electronics salesman whose wife has left him accepts to deliver an enigmatical box and is rewarded with a glimpse of his actual character. Unknown person who may or may not be the man's human father, a man who was brought up to believe that he is the son of God, chases him.