Listening to the Singing of Wind

Haruki Murakami often draws from Japanese landscapes, but I wonder how much of this setting was rooted in personal experience or deliberate choice to evoke a certain mood.

The ending feels both quiet and profound, making me wonder what others took away from the story's resolution and what it says about memory and change.

His poetic, minimalist prose here feels different from his more surreal later novels. Do readers see this as a foundational piece or a standalone experiment?