Description
Title: First Person Singular: stories
Author: MURAKAMI HARUKI
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/04/2022
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Description: A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationallly bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. In these eight stories, Haruki Murakami explores the world from his unique perspective. From the imaginative to the intimate, he moves from an alternate history of the legendary jazz musician Charlie Parker to a man reminiscing about his childhood girlfriend. These stories encompass his great enthusiasms for baseball, jazz and The Beatles and demonstrate his singular, mesmerising voice.
Review: First Person Singular is a patch of intense variety and colour… Murakami’s protagonists tend to be introspective, ordinary men who find themselves confronted by women and unusual situations. It is as much their reactions to events as the events themselves that make his books so brilliant — Arjun Neil Alim * Evening Standard *
Mind-bending…touches beautifully on love, solitude, childhood memories, dreamlike scenarios, invented jazz albums and meditations on music. In true Murakami tale-telling perfection, it’s devourable * Irish Daily Mail *
I never tire of re-entering Murakami’s world, finding his Proustian ability to covey the texture of memory exhilarating, and his fatalistic heroes and their deadpan response to the melodramatic and the outre soothing — Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *
These stories are unmistakably Murakami’s for the way they traffic in his signature themes of time and memory, nostalgia and young love… each one [story] has insights that remain with you long after they are done — Alexander Nurnberh * Sunday Times *
The hallmarks of Haruki Murakami’s longer fiction are all here; an enigmatic eeriness which hints at the supernatural in everyday situations, a love of jazz and baseball, and the nourishing nostalgia of pop music * Daily Mail *
Author Biography: Haruki Murakami (Author) 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 writer
ISBN: 9781529113594
Pages: 240
Edition: 01