Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Haruki Murakami
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099448754
£8.99
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EAN: 9780099448754
Published: 4 Oct 2012
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.
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How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
- Independent on Sunday
These stories show us Japan as it's experienced from the inside-Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life
- New York Times
Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone
- Wall Street Journal
Murakami is a true original and yet in many ways he is also Franz Kafka's successor because he seems to have the intelligence to know what Kafka truly was - a comic writer
- Sunday Herald
All the stories take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces: secret alleys that afford unexpected - and unsettling - views
- New York Times
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
