Wow! Murakami has taken a surreal and completely preposterous plot and produced a very interesting book. If you love whale penises and women with ears as much as me then you'll love this too. Pretty sure the book doesn't need any more of a review than that... but I'll waffle on for a bit more.

I find it interesting that in the 3 books by Murakami I have read the only character that has a name is a cat and that was only cos another character demanded it was given one. So far this is my favourite of his books, I find it amazing that somebody can actually come up with a story like this, I'm really looking for to the next book in the Rat series.