1. "The Bakery Again" is a collection of works by the famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It is a work that connects the past and the future between "Youth Trilogy" and "Norwegian Wood". This exquisite short story together outlines another Haruki Murakami-like young man - always lazy, always full of witty words, laughing when he sees serious people, and feeling uncomfortable when doing serious work... He is a member of the mainstream society. Marginal people.

The six seemingly unrelated short stories illustrate the inevitable scenes of middle age: the romance of youth and the impulse of youth have become farther and farther away; the trivialities of daily life and the burdens of the world. , and now it’s hard to go away. Look at this "I" who spans 6 chapters: at the beginning, he dared to take risks late at night, "raided the bakery again" with his wife, and took a leisurely look at "the disappearance of the elephant". He boasted about this topic in front of the young woman. However, later on, he had to be involved in a "family incident" and accompany his serious future brother-in-law. He had to leave the interesting "Tuesday Girl" and engage in the boring and sexy business of hunting cats in a dead end. "If all the people in the world were like you, the world would be a mess." After my sister accused me like this, the cynical "I" finally started thinking about "where are we going?" 2. "Norwegian Wood" is a touching, gentle and elegant, slightly sentimental, 100% love novel. The protagonist Watanabe of the novel unfolds his love entanglement with two girls in the first person. Watanabe's first love, Naoko, was originally the girlfriend of his high school classmate Kizuki, who later committed suicide. A year later, Watanabe and Naoko met by chance and started dating. At this time, Naoko had become quiet and shy, with an elusive shadow flashing through her beautiful crystal eyes from time to time. The two of them just walked aimlessly in front of, behind or side by side in the fallen leaves of Tokyo day after day. The two had sex on the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, but Naoko disappeared the next day. A few months later, Naoko wrote to say that she was admitted to a mental sanatorium far away in the mountains. When Watanabe went to visit, he found that Naoko began to have the plumpness and beauty of a mature woman. Although the two were in the same room at night, Watanabe restrained himself and said before breaking up that he would always wait for Naoko. Not long after returning to school, due to a chance encounter, Watanabe began to date Midori, who was in the lower grade. Midori is the complete opposite of the introverted Naoko, "just like a deer jumping into the world in the spring morning light." During this period, Watanabe felt very depressed and hesitant. On the one hand, I can't forget Naoko's lingering illness and tenderness, on the other hand, I can't resist Midoriko's bold confession and charming vitality. Soon the bad news came that Naoko had committed suicide, and Watanabe walked around in despair. Finally, with the encouragement of Naoko's roommate Reiko, she began to explore her future life. 3. The protagonist of "Kafka on the Shore" is a young man who calls himself Kafka Tamura - the novel never reveals his real name. He ran away from home alone on the eve of his fifteenth birthday and took a long-distance night bus to Shikoku. The reason for running away was to escape the prophecy made by his father that was even more terrifying than King Oedipus: You will kill your father and have sex with your mother and sister. When Kafka was four years old, his mother suddenly disappeared and took away his sister, who was four years older than Kafka and was actually the adopted daughter of the Tamura family. For some reason, she abandoned her biological son. He had never seen a picture of his mother and didn't even know her name. As if guided by fate, he accidentally came to a private library and took up residence there. The curator, Ms. Saeki, is an elegant and beautiful woman in her forties with a mysterious life experience with twists and turns. Kafka suspected that she was his biological mother, but Saeki refused to comment. Kafka fell in love with Saeki and had a physical relationship with him. The novel also has another sub-line. The protagonist of the sub-line is the old man Nakata. When he was in elementary school during World War II, he experienced a mysterious coma and lost his memory. He completely forgot all the knowledge he had learned and could not even read. Counting, but gained the mysterious ability to talk to cats. Nakata lost control of his mind and killed a madman who called himself Johnny Walker and dressed up like the British gentleman painted on the famous whiskey label. He also hitched a ride here.

The novel is divided into 49 chapters. The odd-numbered chapters basically use realistic techniques to tell Kafka's story, while the even-numbered chapters use magical techniques to show Nakata's adventures. The two techniques are used interchangeably to weave a modern fable with strong fictional color, fantasy and treachery. Saeki is the connecting point that connects the two stories into one, and the prophecy of patricide seems to have not been avoided in the end, because the madman Joni Voka turned out to be Kafka's biological father in disguise, and the real murderer was not Nakata... … 4. The plot of "Hear the Wind Sings" is not very complicated. "I" picked up a drunk girl in a bar and spent a drunken night at her home. The misunderstanding after waking up has not been explained clearly, they have become lovers, and the sad past has not been explained clearly, but she has disappeared without a trace. The love affair that lasted only eighteen days seemed to end without a clue and at the same time it seemed to be infinite. "I" is the only one. For successful writers, the story is not the most important. What is important is the writer's perception and understanding of life reflected in the work.