num_pages: 182
description: Not since Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata has a Japanese writer won the international acclaim enjoyed hy Haruki Murakami. His genre- busting novels, short stones, and repodage, which have been translated into thirty-four languages, meld the surreal and the hard-boiled, deadpan comedy and delicate introspection.Vintage Murakami includes the opening cnapter of the international bestseller Norwegian Wood; •'Lieueenant Mamiya's Long Story: Parts I and II" from his monumental novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; "Shizuko Akashi" from: Underground, his nonfiction book on the Toyko subway attack 1995; and the short stories "Barn Burning," and "honey pie."Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story "Ice Man."--back coverTable of Contents"Barn burning" from The Elephant vanished --	"Shizuko Akashi" from Underground --	"Honeypie" from After the Quake --	"Lieutenant Mamiya's long stories: Part I" from the Wind-up bird chronicle --	"Lieutenant Mamiya's long stories: Part II" from the Wind-up bird chronicle --	"Ice man."
language: English
title: Vintage Murakami
titlecomplete: Vintage Murakami
genres: Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Literature, Fantasy, Japan, Anthologies, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 852
publisher: Vintage Books