Salih's idea that Western audiences, raised on stories like Christopher Nolan's that resolve logically, demand explanations, while Japanese and Asian storytelling lets strange things happen unexplained. This expectation is what drives many readers away from Murakami.
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- Demanding explanations blocks Murakami
Western readers are trained by tidy, logical endings to demand explanations; accepting that strange things can simply happen, as Japanese storytelling does, is the key to enjoying Murakami.
This is Murakami, you won't get an explanation. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't.