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First Person Singular: Stories

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Hardback | English

By (author): Haruki Murakami

Translated by: Philip Gabriel

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.

Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK

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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 377g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Apr 2021
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781787302600

About Haruki Murakami

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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