By Haruki Murakami

Most people – most of us who are part of Japanese society – graduate from school, then find work, then, after some time has passed, get married. Even I originally intended to follow that pattern. Yet in reality I married, then started working, then finally managed to graduate. In other words, the order I chose was the exact opposite to what was considered normal.

Since I hated the idea of working for a company, I decided to open my own establishment, a place where people could go to listen to jazz records, have a coffee, eat snacks and drink. It was a simple, rather happy-go-lucky kind of idea: running a business like that would let me relax listening to my favorite music from morning till night.

(Adaptado de H. Murakami, Wind and Pimbal – Two Novels. Tradução do japonês para o inglês de Ted Goossen. London: Penguin Random House, 2015, p.5.)

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