“I have a kind of weird story related to death. Something my father told me. He said it was an actual experience he had when he was in his early twenties. Just the age I am now. I’ve heard the story so many times I can remember every detail. It’s a really strange story—it’s hard even now for me to believe it actually happened— but my father isn’t the type to lie about something like that.”
“Haida’s Story” is a stunning folk tale from Haruki Murakami’s forthcoming novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Read the excerpt now over at Slate.
