Haruki Murakami
Hardcover | Pages: 333 pages Rating: 3.84 | 29719 Users | 2016 Reviews
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| Original Title: | めくらやなぎと、眠る女 [Mekurayanagi to, nemuru onna] |
| ISBN: | 1400044618 (ISBN13: 9781400044610) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Japan South Pole(Antarctica) Singapore …more Hawaii(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2007) |
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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.Be Specific About Regarding Books Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
| Title | : | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman |
| Author | : | Haruki Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 333 pages |
| Published | : | August 29th 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf (first published July 2006) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature |
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This collection from Haruki Murakami was on my TBR explode list for March, and I only meant to flip through it. But after reading "The Year of Spaghetti," he pulled me in. Other favorites include "Birthday Girl," "Crabs," and "Chance Traveler."(I think I've finally made it past the Murakami glut in my TBR pile chronologically, at least for a while.)Here is a story of why I am the best friend ever.Way back in aught 5 or so (oh my god, how was that a decade ago), I worked at Random House. I was and am still a smoker; I could and do tell so many stories about how smoking has directed and redirected the course of my life (here's one about books!). Anyway. There was a guy at RH I knew a bit because we smoked at the same time, and eventually I learned that he was like the head of marketing for a bunch of the big imprints. At one point he made me
Mekurayanagi to Nemuru Onna = Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki MurakamiBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Contents: "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", "Birthday Girl", "New York Mining Disaster", "Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry", "The Mirror", "A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism", "Hunting Knife", "A Perfect Day for Kangaroos", "Dabchick", "Man-Eating Cats", "A 'Poor
Reading Murakami (Haruki) is kind of like dreaming. This was a book of 24 of his short stories. What I noticed is that unlike some short story collections I've read, Murakami has the talent of writing a few first lines that just grab you and make you rush on with the story. But then what seems straightforward, say a simple love affair, ends up being just a firefly stuck in a jar or an endless trip to the south pole; the end sometimes has no relation to the beginning or no apparent relation. Some
This was an enjoyable read, 24 short stories some of them were deeply random and some were great. Most of the story had this really deep meaning that you do not catch right away.
Read more Reviews at Reviewing Shelf.Murakami. *Sigh* Here we go. After two full length novels and two short story books, I am beginning to get Murakami. No no, don't get me wrong. No one can 'get' Murakami (not me, at least). I have even come to doubt if Murakami gets Murakami! What I mean is that I have made my peace with him. So while Kafka on the shore had me pulling my hair (read more about that here) and wanting to hunt Murakami down (which I tried to unsuccessfully, on my trip to Japan),
Definitively I am not a big fan of short-stories. 2* Yesterday4* Town of Cats3* Kafka on the Shore3* Norwegian Wood3* Hunting Knife4* Minha Querida Sputnik5* The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle4* 1Q842* Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanTR After the Quake
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