Bibliograph

Blind willow, sleeping woman, twenty-four stories, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin

Type

Label

Blind willow, sleeping woman, twenty-four stories, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Blind willow, sleeping woman

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

244443663

Responsibility statement

Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin

Sub title

twenty-four stories

Summary

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami's mastery of the form.From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all

Table Of Contents

Introduction to the English edition -- Blind willow, sleeping woman -- Birthday girl -- New York mining disaster -- Airplane: or, how he talked to himself as if reciting poetry -- The mirror -- A folklore for my generation: a pre-history of late-stage capitalism -- Hunting knife -- A perfect day for kangaroos -- Dabchick -- Man-eating cats -- A "poor aunt" story -- Nausea 1979 -- The seventh man -- The year of spaghetti -- Tony Takitani -- The rise and fall of Sharpie cakes -- The ice man -- Crabs -- Firefly -- Chance traveler -- Hanalei Bay -- Where I'm likely to find it -- The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day -- A Shinagawa monkey

Target audience

adult

Classification