This was my fifth Murakami book.
The people i talked to ( people who have already read the book) told me it affected them very severely and that confused me when i completed the book cuz i felt it didn't affect me that much.
It was only a while later that i realised that it was a slowburn and the book affected slowly, but once it reached the tipping point, it evoked so much emotion and pain that it almost took me down a spiral. A brilliant book!!