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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

Blind willow, sleeping woman : twenty-four stories / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin.

1st ed., [English ed.].

New York : Knopf, 2006.

ix, 333 pages ; 25 cm

"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"--Page 2 of cover.

Short stories.

Short stories.

Gabriel, Philip, 1953-

Rubin, Jay, 1941-

Translated from the Japanese.

Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, 2007

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.

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