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In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

by Patrick Schabe

[12.May.06] :. Murakami plays with space and culture, shedding light on the lack of personal space by drawing the reader into the claustrophobic world of the story's narrator, Kenji, then mimicking the desire to get away from the pervasive presence of a horrific American sociopath named Frank.

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