Haruki Murakami and the Poetics of Requiem - 8:25 AM, for many festivals, Yumiyoshi's ears -

We decipher Murakami Haruki's cleverly hidden techniques of "consolation." The adventure in search of the "lost lover" begins.

The third girlfriend, Naoko, the girl with the "ears," the classmate who married a revolutionary, Yumiyoshi... The mystery of the "lost lover" recurs and congestes throughout the novel.