With The Beatles - Short Story by Haruki Murakami

from the short story collection, first person singular.
Feel free to give me recommendations for my next upload in the comments

[@LienNguyen-rm5zt]

please do more of Murakami's. Your voice goes so well with his stories!

[@joaoneto3739]

Que conto bom!

[@mackzuk1621]

Your a life saver!!!

[@vanbloot495]

Okay, I didn't like the story the first time I read it cause I felt like it was pointless. Later on I read one of his other shorts called "Barn Burning" and I liked it but I still didn't get it but then the movie called "burning" based on Barn Burning came out and I finally understood that the story was a about a serial killer! But told in a very subtle way. So when it came time to revisit this short story "With the beatles" I was looking for the signs and I think I have a theory. The brother has a sort of traumatic amnesia. I think he abused his sister, and he did it regularly. The boyfriend was supposed to meet the girlfriend on Sunday, but something happened to her the night before, and all the family members rushed her to the hospital. However, the family kept it under wraps and kept this secret within the family. I assume the sister was not allowed to talk about it too. That's why she never spoke about her brother. The sister then lied to the narrator about their scheduled date and the narrator just believed her. Fast forward to later in her life, and she is an adult but realizes that her abuser (her brother) still has not faced justice. Her whole family ignores this issue, leading to her own trauma, and she eventually committed suicide. The brothers supposed "genetic memory loss disorder" was a lie he made up or a lie his parents told him. He would commit these crimes on the sister and most likely block out these memories. This is my theory. Her suicide was not random, and the brothers' Memory loss was not random. I believe Murakami is giving us all the clues to piece the story together, but I think we are so used to believing characters in normal stories. We should be investigators regarding his stories. The only character you should believe is the narrator because he is just as ignorant as we are, but he also, much like us, was not privy to what was happening to his own girlfriend. The narrator looks back to this memory and realises he missed something. He missed something important. Evil is everywhere, and it's not easy to see.

[@marinahasan6438]

I just finished reading the story for my upcoming exam. I really love your interpretation and now I can't see the story otherwise.

[@jchang.y]

Thank You, Helped me with my college work with your audiobook, :)

[@somadood]

lovely

[@triptig8768]

Thank you for all good these audiobooks... I am fan of murrakami novels but i can't afford all at time.... But i really wanted to read... So thanku 👍🙏

[@nodatastored684]

Now, why did the Sheepman leave Mariko In the Restaurant with the strange pantomime clown and that kid with the Beatles t-shirt with the typo and the Korean accent, while the Sheep feastes on Everyonenelse

[@siarsiham7243]

thank you

[@vidumn]

the memory police by yoko ogawa pls