Paperback. Pub Date :2007-7-1 Pages: 362 Publisher: Random House Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on theShore-daringly original. wrote Steven Moore in The WashingtonPost Book World. and compulsively readable-comes a collectionthat generously expresses Murakami's mastery. From the surreal tothe mundane. these stories exhibit his ability to transform thefull range of human experience in ways that are instructive. surprising. and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder haswritten in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He addresses thefantastic and the natural. each with the same mix of gravity andlightness. Here are animated crows. a criminal monkey. and an iceman. aswell as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for.Whether during a chance reunion in Italy. a romantic exile inGreece. a holiday in Hawaii. or in the grip of everyday life. Murakami's c...
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Review:
wonderfully original stories...whose momentum never slackens, carrying you effortlessly from one improbabl e twist to the next....This is all round audio entertainment at its very best. (Guardian)
'An intimate pleasure' (The Times)
'Will undoubtedly confirm his reputation as literature's answer to David Lynch' (Times Literary Supplement)
'Unforgettable' (New Statesman)
'Excellent...always provocative and never less than engaging' (Daily Telegraph)
'By turns disturbing and delightful...every bit as substantial as a novel. They show him at his very best; not as a cult novelist but as a really first-rate writer of short fiction' (Guardian)
From the Publisher:
An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author.
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- PublisherRandom House LCC US
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0307386325
- ISBN 13 9780307386328
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages384
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