![]() After hearing his story, Misaki notes that perhaps his wife having affairs had had nothing to do with love and that was a good enough reason to do so. He also never learns of his wife's motives, calling it a "blind spot" in his knowledge of her. ![]() However, over the course of their six month friendship which was spent mostly binge drinking at local bars, he was never able to find any damning information and instead sympathizes with Takatsuki's observations. One tale includes how he befriended her lover, Takatsuki, with the intention of harming him. During their trips, Kafuku occasionally tells her about his life as an actor and his late wife's extramarital affairs. Kafuku, a veteran and widowed actor, hires twenty-four year old driver Misaki Watari to chauffeur him around Tokyo due to his license being revoked due to a D.U.I. Originally published in (English translation) ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection shares its title with Ernest Hemingway's second short story collection. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. Men Without Women ( Japanese: 女のいない男たち, Hepburn: Onna no inai otokotachi ) is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. ![]()
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