Just finished

I like to have a few books on the go at the same time. Always a novel, then as well, perhaps some autobiography and something challenging and uplifting, not that a novel cannot be all of those things.
Any way over the years I've been delighted when a new Haruki Murakami book has landed on the shelves, so I was happy to buy his latest hefty work some 681 pages called Killing Commendatore. Take a journey into his engaging, challenging (there that word), edgy and uncomfortable world and be drawn along as I have been. A thoroughly delicious read with much to ponder, he  always offers an opportunity to suspend belief and soar with it. One sentence that has lingered with me since I finished it the other day. Towards the end the narrator, who is never named, states baldly and boldly-
'We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.'

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