Blind window, sleeping woman

Description:

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

subjects: Translations into English,  Japanese Short stories,  Fiction,  Literature,  Fiction - General,  Literary,  Short Stories (single author),  Fiction / Literary,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Japanese fiction,  Translations into Hebrew,  Short stories,  New York Times reviewed

People: Haruki Murakami (1949-)