【第五章】村上春树故迹探寻之旅 Following the footsteps of Haruki Murakami Chapter 5

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看《朝日新闻》得知打出这里是有个公园纪念村上春树的。当年是个动物园，最后只剩下猴子，直到今天猴子也没有了，就留下了个空空的猴笼。村上的第一部作品《且听风吟》里提到主角跟鼠一起开车，撞上动物园护栏，引擎盖飞出撞醒了动物园的猴子的，是以这里为原型。为了纪念村上春树，当地甚至专门装饰了这个笼子，上面的一幅画里猴子还捧着村上的《海边的卡夫卡》在看。
According to Asahi Shimbun I read years ago, there is a Monkey Park in Uchide. On its site was a zoo, but the cage for monkeys is all that has left. The monkey case was mentioned in Murakami’s first work, Hear the Wind Sing, when the protagonist first met Nezumi (Mouse) and they drunk-drove and hit the zoo, and the hood of the car hit the cage which woke the monkeys. Local authority has taken steps to memorize this connection between Murakami and the zoo by decorating the cage with paintings. One of the paintings there is a monkey reading Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.