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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) |
Haruki Murakami
Hardcover | Pages: 333 pages Rating: 3.84 | 29719 Users | 2016 Reviews
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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.
Details About Books Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
| Title | : | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman |
| Author | : | Haruki Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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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Ratings: 3.84 From 29719 Users | 2016 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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),"Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. Synopsis: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a collection of twenty-four, some short, some a little long stories.The stories are as follows:1. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (translated by Philip Gabriel)2. Birthday Girl (translated by Jay Rubin)3. New York Mining Disaster (translated by Philip Gabriel)4. Airplane" Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry (translated by Jay Rubin)5. The Mirror (translated by Philip
I worked through this short story collection slowly, over several months. Perhaps it was just a shift in consciousness over those months interim, but the back-half of the collection was much better in quality (with only a few exceptions). Many of these stories were published in English in various magazines, most notably The New Yorker and Harper's from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Highlights of the collection:Birthday GirlMirrorThe Seventh ManChance TravelerHanalei BayShinagawa Monkey**I
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
3.5 star's
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
A book of short stories. As ever with Murakami we get kooky, left field prose - talking monkeys stealing names or waves with evil intent. Unsettling and thought provoking.For me the collection was patchy, a few stories didn't work, most were fine, and there were a couple of real gems.
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