num_pages: 334
description: Following the success of Kafka on the Shore comes a collection that gives free rein to Murakami's mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising and relentlessly entertaining.As Rupert Thompson wrote in Esquire, 'Murakami brilliantly conveys the absolutely oddness of ordinary life". Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in 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 loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.
language: English
title: Blind willow, sleeping woman
titlecomplete: Blind willow, sleeping woman
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asian Literature, Contemporary, Fantasy
ratings_count: 38335
places: Hawaii, Japan, Antarctica, South Pole, Singapore, Southeast Asia
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Harvill Secker