Murakami said it is the task of novelists to help readers pass through these walls, and that harnessing the power of each person’s imagination “could be the starting point of something.”
A world without walls can be created “in the quiet but sustained effort to keep on singing, to keep on telling stories, stories about a better and freer world to come, without losing heart,” he said.“We can see [a world without walls] with our own eyes – we can even touch it with our own hands if we try hard.
“I’d like to send this message to the young people in Hong Kong who are struggling against their wall right now at this moment.”