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

by Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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Japanese short stories -- Translations into English.

9781400096084 (2007 Vintage International trade pbk.)

1st ed., [English ed.].

ix, 333 p. ; 25 cm.

Translated from the Japanese.

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.

"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. As Richard Eder has written in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “He addresses the fantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity and lightness.” 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 the closest of all."--Inside jacket.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

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