Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Haruki Murakami

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 9, 2007 - Fiction - 384 pages

The twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form.

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.

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User Review  - modioperandi - LibraryThing

When I read Murakami, I sometimes feel that he is living inside me taking notes on my feelings and my observations about people I’ve met years ago or even this morning. Then he transcribes them to ...

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Readers may be curious about Haruki Murakami due to the rave reviews of his full-length novels (ex: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore), and their popularity in translation ...

Contents

• Blind Willow Sleeping Woman: 3
• New York Mining Disaster: 33
• A Perfect Day for Kangaroos: 100
• ManEating Cats: 112
• A Poor Aunt Story: 131
• 1 51: 151
• The Seventh Man: 163
• The Year of Spaghetti: 178
• Tony Takitani: 184
• Chance Traveler: 249
• Where Im Likely to Find It: 291
• A Shinagawa Monkey: 333

About the author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; Vintage International
• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 1400096081, 9781400096084
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)