Characters wake up, tired of living in Tokyo, and go on an unusual journey in "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman', a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami that enter into the mysterious domains of human soul and life. He attacks human psyche through his distinctive mixture of surrealism and realism. He constructs stories that intrigue readers with their profound narratives and beautiful, tragic poetry.
Basically, looking at the issue from a distance the collection centers around the theme of human relations and the meaning of serach in this world, which seems to be heartless. Murakami creatively handles the ideas such as loneliness, being alienated from the self, and existential anguish with wisdom and compassion, urging the audience to delve deeper and understand human struggle completely.
The message that strikes in every stories is that the there is more uncertain in life and everyone should accept that it as a part of life. Many times Murakami's heroes have tended to discover that things which can not be explained and weird happenings have directly confronted them, or that they have been facing situations where a normal logic has failed to explain anything. Thus, struggling with this difficulty, they inevitably face their own flaws and insecurities through which they eventually come to the realization that facing such conundrums is a natural part of human existence.
On the top of that, the information illustrated the networking and the mental connections of individuals and the consequent impact of brief meetings on people’s lives. Murakami expresses in the novel the meaningless encounters and privileges from the chance of the unusual. Accordingly, such a circumstance starts the process of the personal transmutation which is characterized by the unpredictable essence of human connection and the possibility of the out-of-the-shadows growth and discovery of oneself.
Actually, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" guides us to accept the ambiguity that is life, to find the diamond in the rough, so to say, and to remember and value the luminous moments of one's existence. All these moving stories with the deepest meanings of life become a hallmark of this collection which teaches us that the human species, remarkably talented, is still very complex.