Haruki Murakami discusses “The Wind Cave,” his short story from this week’s issue of the magazine.Photograph by Kevin Trageser / Redux Your story in this week’s issue, “The Wind Cave,” is taken from your forthcoming novel, “Killing Commendatore.” In the rest of the novel, the narrator, as an adult twenty years later, is still haunted by the memory of his dead sister. Why do you think the loss was
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