It was especially this way with him, so he really stood out. There are some people that just jab you sharply in the heart. While he probably couldn’t have been called handsome, there was undeniably something charming in his bearing. He had high cheek-bones that appeared to have been chiseled out of cold, hard rock, and there was a slight coating of unmelted white frost on his fingers, but other than that the Ice Man’s appearance wasn’t much different from a normal person. When I saw his face, he looked fairly young still, but that thick, wiry hair was white, like it had been mixed with melted snow. The Ice Man was tall, and from looking at him, his hair seemed bristly.
It was like she was talking about a ghost or somebody with a contagious disease or something. That’s why he’s called the Ice Man, she said to me with a serious expression. She just knew that he existed and was called the Ice Man. But at that time, I had no idea what in the world an Ice Man was. Hey, that’s the Ice Man, my friend informed me in a low voice. Though it was approaching high noon, it seemed to me that the cool, fresh light of the winter morning still lingered around him. In the boisterous hotel lobby, crowded with young people, the Ice Man was sitting in a chair at the furthest possible remove from the fireplace, silently reading a book.
I guess that’s the kind of place one ought to meet an Ice Man. I first met the Ice Man at this ski resort hotel. Selain novel-novelnya seperti: A Wild Sheep Chase, Pinball, Hear the Wind Sing, Norwegian Wood, dan masih banyak lagi, Haruki Murakami juga turur membuat cerita-cerita pendek (cerpen) yang cukup laris ditampilkan di beberapa majalah maupun surat kabar, serta dikumpulkan dalam satu buku yang berjudul Blind Willow Sleeping Woman salah satu cerita pendek yang popular berjudul The Ice Man, mengisahakan kehidupan seorang wanita dan suaminya. Haruki Murakami, seorang penulis asal Jepang yang dikenal memiliki gaya tulisan dan penceritaan yang khas.
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