In one of his most popular novels, Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami’s protagonist — Kafka Tamura — meets a young man called Oshima, whom he describes as
. He is someone who wears a “shirt without a single wrinkle” and whose “skin is as smooth as porcelain”. Fifteen-year-old Tamura, who has run...
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"pretty, rather than handsome"