" Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. "

amazon.com review. filedrawered because it's the most succint explanation of his work that I've seen, and I want to save it for people who ask me how his books are. :D