Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Informationen zum Autor 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 writers. Klappentext A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab while on holiday; a man follows instructions on the back of a postcard to apply for a job, but an unknown password stands between him and his mysterious employer. In each of these stories Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal. Everyday events are transcended, leaving the reader dazzled by the master of his craft. Zusammenfassung A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; In each one of these stories Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal.

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Philip Gabriel (Translation), Jay Rubin (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9780099512820
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951282-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 109 mm x 177 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Japan, Hawaii, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Fiction in translation, Italy, Greece, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Magical Realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Hawaii / Hawai?i (State of)