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Book Description
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favContinue
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from someone who doesn't like short stories...
I have to say, I never like short stories, but having read Norwegian Wood I am so mesmerized that I have to pick up any book of Murakami I can get hold of from the library, and this happens to be the one.
I must admit, I didn't finish all of the short stories although I attempted to start each ... (continue)
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0679750533
- ISBN-13: 9780679750536
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jun 28, 1994
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Murakami showcases the prenultimate short story. I actually enjoyed these more than his full length novels.
Interestingly, the same names appear ... so one is given a glimpse of his novel's characters outside of their novels.
The first story is excerpted from Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. And ... (continue)
Murakami showcases the prenultimate short story. I actually enjoyed these more than his full length novels.
Interestingly, the same names appear ... so one is given a glimpse of his novel's characters outside of their novels.
The first story is excerpted from Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. And if you haven't read this yet, well, I guess you will want to after having read this anthology!
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