Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Softcover

Murakami, Haruki

 
9780099512820: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099512823 ISBN 13: 9780099512820
Verlag: Vintage, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab while on holiday; a man follows instructions on the back of a postcard to apply for a job, but an unknown password stands between him and his mysterious employer. In each one of these stories Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal. Everyday events are transcended, leaving the reader dazzled by this master of his craft.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is Murakami's most eclectic collection of stories to date, spanning five years of his writing. An introduction explains the diversity of the author's choice.

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In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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'More insight into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos than one has right to expect in any single volume' Daily Express
'An intimate pleasure' The Times
Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's chracters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.
Following the success of Kafka on the Shore comes a collection that gives full rein to Murakami's inventive mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising and relentlessly entertaining.
'Funny but also sad and wise' Sunday Telegraph
'These stories are rich in Murakami magic... a collection that all readers will enjoy' Independent
'A stunning collection... simple, mysterious and true... Masterful' Arena
'Exhilarating' Spectator
'He casts a spell... his world is like no other' Daily Mail

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'More insight into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos than one has right to expect in any single volume' Daily Express
'An intimate pleasure' The Times
Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's chracters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.
Following the success of Kafka on the Shore comes a collection that gives full rein to Murakami's inventive mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising and relentlessly entertaining.
'Funny but also sad and wise' Sunday Telegraph
'These stories are rich in Murakami magic... a collection that all readers will enjoy' Independent
'A stunning collection... simple, mysterious and true... Masterful' Arena
'Exhilarating' Spectator
'He casts a spell... his world is like no other' Daily Mail

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099512823
ISBN 13 
9780099512820
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
448
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Penguin
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

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Madrid
Madrid
Spanien

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