[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

The Woman on the phone - was it Komiko? Toru insists he's good at recognizing voices, but in another scene I recall him having trouble identifying a voice.
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Spoiler:

Experiencing a rare instance of foresight, I immediately knew that the woman on the phone was going to be his wife. At first, I assumed it was his wife (in real time) disguising her voice, searching for something from her husband that she couldn't directly ask him for. I had no idea what it was about, but I instinctually knew that the search for the woman on the phone would be the same search as the one for his wife. That she was dialing him up from the underworld only delighted me further. I'm a sucker for a good underworld passage story, and Murakami's story is a beautiful addition to that particular genre.

I'm still having trouble opening a discussion about certain aspects of the book so am instead latching onto other people's fits and starts....