Vintage Murakami
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2004-01
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781400033966
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Asian - Japanese; Fiction / Literary
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 shod stories "Barn Burning," and "honey pie."

Also included, for the first time in book form, the shod story "Ice Man."
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Notes: US
Table of contents: title: "Barn burning" from The Elephant vanished --; title: "Shizuko Akashi" from Underground --; title: "Honeypie" from After the Quake --; title: "Lieutenant Mamiya's long stories: Part I" from the Wind-up bird chronicle --; title: "Lieutenant Mamiya's long stories: Part II" from the Wind-up bird chronicle --; title: "Ice man."