The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

[staralfurr]

"Still, I did the right thing. I observed form and went to ask Kumiko's parents for her hand in marriage. To say that their reception was cool would be an understatement. The doors of all the world's refrigerators seemed to have been thrown open at once."

Comments

[7ommi]

haha is that a direct translation?

[staralfurr]

almost all his works are in japanese. but its damn funny to read this kind of lines. and he has A LOT of them hahahhaha

[7ommi]

hahaha i really can't think of how it would work in japanese unless he really uses the english words?

hey, happy birthday!

[staralfurr]

hey thanks :)

about murakami, since he used to translate english text into japanese, maybe he wrote that in english and translated it to japanese and then now translated back to english?? hahaha dunno!!