Minor Murakami, perhaps, but still lovely and strange and quite enjoyable. Doubts I have about it are still mostly those that I've developed with most Murakami: he seems to be writing intuitively on feel and subconcious imperative a lot of the time, and I'm not sure even he could give a full account of why these particular scenes and events were strung together in his book. 
 But is this a problem? Maybe? I haven't decided.