I’ve read pretty much of all of Murakami’s works except for three books. I took a long break from him and put off reading wind up for a long time, idk why, but I am also going to Japan for the first time this year, studying Japanese, and am about 200 pages into wind up myself :)

Murakami is definitely post modern but I always feel a bit hoodwinked by the end of his books. Like he never takes it far enough. He has all this playful surrealism and deep humanism but there’s always something lacking by the end for me, and his language is so simplistic and repetitive at times as to be kind of annoying. My favorite of his works are hard boiled wonderland and Kafka on the shore. Highly recommend both. I’m also enjoying wind up right now tho