description: Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on the Shore-"daringly original," wrote Steven Moore in The Washington Post Book World, "and compulsively readable"-comes a collection that generously expresses Murakami's mastery. 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. "While anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream," Laura Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves"-a feat performed anew twenty-four times in this career-spanning book.
language: English
title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
titlecomplete: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
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: Tantor Audio