The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day

The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day” is Haruki Murakami’s take on James’s parable. It is the story of Junpei, who as a teenager is given one piece of life advice by his usually taciturn father: “Among the women a man meets in his life, there are only three that have real meaning for him. No more, no less.” Junpei spends his adulthood obsessing over his father’s proclamation, convinced that he has already met one of the three women, who eventually went on to marry someone else.