![]() ![]() The entrance to the second basement is not obvious. There is darkness in the second basement people see the connections to their past and their souls. To explain what I mean by "lighter" without mentioning the plot, a metaphor that Murakami used in one of his interviews may help (this was an interview for a Japanese literary journal in 2004 I am translating/para-phrasing - the original was longer): "Human existence takes place in a "two-story house" (metaphorically, obviously) : the first floor is where people talk to each other the second floor is where each individual does her/his own things, like reading books or listening to music then there is the basement where people occasionally visit to reflect or look at things that lay there that are forgotten in daily life then, below the basement, there is the second basement that most people don't get to visit. Like "Sputnik Sweetheart", among Murakami's books, this is a "lighter" but very good one, I think. Not many metaphors in this book, but it's good
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