![]() ![]() The types of relationships featured in these stories include a male widow who confesses to his female driver about his dead wives’ lovers on the side. It’s reading through the story that really fills in the blanks in your mind, and allows you to understand the meaning based on your own life experiences. We typically get some kind of background about the characters, but there are also many things about them that are merely hinted at. With such short stories, you begin to feel like you know a decent amount about these characters, even though the author is pretty ambiguous when writing about them. What Murakami is a master of, is creating subtext. ![]() Each story is completely disconnected from the last, with the only reoccurring theme being their relationships (or friendships) with women. Some of these men are widowed, married, divorced, or single. In Men Without Women: Stories, Japanese author Haruki Murakami highlights different men with different kinds of relationships with women. I happen to be a single man at the time of reading, with a few long relationships behind me, and for that reason, reading through these short stories resonates. Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami has had what I like to call a satisfyingly depressive effect on me after reading it. ![]()
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