num_pages: 334
description: Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. 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. 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 closest of all.
language: English
title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
titlecomplete: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
genres: Asia, Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Literature, Fantasy, Japan, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 38328
places: South Pole, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Japan, Antarctica
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf