Little love is on show in Murakami's chaotic epic

**From the Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami**

**Pushkin Press, €25.20**

**Reviewed by Joanne Hayden**

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Like a classic Russian novel, To the Fatherland, With Love opens with an exhaustive list of characters. The temptation is to skip it in favour of flicking back and forth later, when the need arises. But the list is one of Ryu Murakami's ways of priming his readers. The characters are grouped under three locations: North Korea, ...