COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami, Alfred A. Knopf, 386 pp., $29.95. Dig a little and you'll find that most people have some kind of irrational fear and plenty ...
How does he do it? His sentences are as unfussy as Finnish furniture. His plots do not require much joinery. His characters are vividly grained, but often mysteriously so. Yet within a paragraph, ...