Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Noboro Watanabe

Murakami's short stories all share a mood of serene surrealism, sort of like a Jeunet movie. Perhaps surprisingly the stories seem less "Japanese" (aside from their Tokyo backdrops) than those of several ex-pats, including Kerri Sakamoto who lives in Toronto. Some of the stories are a little self-consciously quirky (the Jonathan Lethem disease) and none of them really implant any long-term images in the reader's mind. They tend to evaporate into insubstantiality the minute you finish reading them.Still, they have the pleasant mouth-feel of a high-quality Riesling.