Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on the
Shore--"daringly original," wrote Steven Moore in The
Washington Post Book World, "and compulsively
readable"--comes a collection that generously expresses
Murakami's mastery. 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. As Richard Eder
has written in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "He
addresses the fantastic and the natural, each with the same
mix of gravity and lightness."
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 the closest of
all.
"While anyone can tell a story that resembles a
dream," Laura Miller wrote in The New York Times Book
Review, "it's the rare artist, like this one, who can
make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves"--a feat
performed anew twenty-four times in this career-spanning book.
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