Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Collection of twenty-four stories that generously
expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. 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.
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 closest
of all.