This is a young boy who has been exiled from England to wilderness of Canada. And the second character is in 2020. It's a lady living in USA. And the third character is an author and has semiautobiographical element in it, who is on a book tour from 2280 to Earth on her newly released book. And there's a pandemic also raging on when she visits the Earth. So there is a very contemporary element of pandemic
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 1:51
Hi, Dr. Mathur. So, being a fan of Harakimura Kami's writing, I think I am very much into the speculative fiction genre and every book I have read under this genre has amazed me. And I think it sort of forces you to expand your imagination and sort of accept what's happening in the magic circle of the text. That's seemingly bizarre. The happenings are seemingly bizarre because they are unlike the realist novels
Neha vora
@SanitybyNeha · 1:28
Hello. So I listened to your review on the book and even if it was your first, well, first of all, I would like to welcome you and you've done a wonderful job not giving away the entire story. And the review was just intriguing enough to make me pick up the book. And yes, I also have read lots of Hiroki Murakami books and I know the speculation fiction because each one takes a different take on takes a different meaning or attaches a different meaning to the story
Riya Prasad
@highonchai · 3:57
I can't even explain how happy this book made me when I got to page 40 and the characters from The Glass Hotels from her previous novel showed up and I literally jumped for joy. Like you said, Dr. Martha, that it has a subtle skyfi hint to it, but it is great. It is amazing, this book. We have this futuristic moon colony where humans have discovered how to actually do time travel
himanshu mathur
@himanshu166 · 1:52
I myself am a huge fan of Murakami books, and what that does is that when a talking monkey enters into a room suddenly and starts giving massage to the main protagonist in a book like Kafka on the Shore, we just take it in our strides, really as if nothing strange is happening, and go along the story. Speculative fiction is really a genre which I enjoy, and we also enjoy other realistic books, literary fiction. But speculative fiction is one of my favorite genre
himanshu mathur
@himanshu166 · 2:10
We as readers can enjoy such books and go ahead and explore new paths, new horizons in such books. And I like the very much the fact that you said that authors write the book with something in their minds. But as readers we can interpret those books in our own way and that is the beauty of it. And it is doubled when we discuss these interpretations among ourselves. So I'm looking forward to discuss many such books with you
himanshu mathur
@himanshu166 · 4:11
There is a bit of historical fiction too, especially in the first part when the exiled boy goes to Canada and there is some really good trivia about Vancouver Island. And that historical part has been very well described and the science fiction part has been done very well. The futuristic moon colony, time travel and it is really well done. Nothing feels out of the place, everything seems to be in this place. So the author, she has juggled all these things beautifully