Blind willow, sleeping woman : twenty-four stories

Author

Haruki Murakami

Call Number

• FICTION MURA (CEN)

Edition

1st ed., [English ed.].

Publication Information

New York : Knopf, 2006.

Physical Description

ix, 333 p. ; c25 cm.

Summary

From the surreal to the mundane, an anthology of short fiction captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship in works that chronicle a chance reunion in Italy, a holiday in Hawaii, and a romantic exile in Greece.

Contents

• Introduction to the English edition
• Blind willow, sleeping woman
• Birthday girl
• New York mining disaster
• Airplane : or, how he talked to himself as if reciting poetry
• The mirror
• A folklore for my generation : a pre-history of late-stage capitalism
• Hunting knife
• A perfect day for kangaroos
• Dabchick
• Man-eating cats
• A "poor aunt" story
• Nausea 1979
• The seventh man
• The year of spaghetti
• Tony Takitani
• The rise and fall of Sharpie cakes
• The ice man
• Crabs
• Firefly
• Chance traveler
• Hanalei Bay
• Where I'm likely to find it
• The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day
• A Shinagawa monkey.