Satoru's place is jazz. Prone to counter-top philosophizing for lack of company or clientele, the Japanese shop boy muses that the colors and feelings of his inner world "come not from the eye but from sounds." That's why he works in a music store, he says, adding paradoxically, "not that I could ever put that into words." This odd disconnect between what Satoru believes he can articulate and the fact that it is eloquently articulated for the reader in Satoru's voice is typical of all nine narrators in David... More >>>