LoT Book CLub - Book 2 - Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

I have a niggling question, for those who have already read this book:

Spoiler:

What did you think the significance was in having the young girl's letters go missing? Where do you suppose they went? The ether? The netherworld? Why did the author *not* want him to receive them? Of all the unresolved strands (and I didn't mind them being unresolved; i rather liked not knowing the fate of the sisters, etc.) But the disappeared letters left me curious.

Well, honestly, I'll have to read this again in order to answer that properly, but:

Spoiler:

I know at the time I wondered if that were really true, that perhaps Turo did get them but denied it, or tossed them aside, or ignored them in some way perhaps denying his affection/attraction to May. Of course, there are also a number of characters who could have intercepted them. In a way it mirrors the dissappearance of his wife, The women in Toru's life seem to keep vanishing in one way or another.

Honestly though, I'm very sketchy on the details - so I'll reserve the right to revisit this response.