The first person singular: stories
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Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street JournalThe eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. 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.
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Gabriel, Philip Translator
Gabriel, Philip,1953- translator
Murakami, Haruki Author
Watanabe, Kotaro Narrator
Gabriel, Philip,1953- translator
Murakami, Haruki Author
Watanabe, Kotaro Narrator
ISBN
9780593318072
9780593318089
9780593349236
9780593318089
9780593349236
Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Cream
On a stone pillow
Charlie Parker plays Bossa Nova
With the Beatles
Confessions of a Shinagawa monkey
Carnaval
The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection
First person singular.
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