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Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
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Surreal tapestry intertwining dreams, reality, and desire.
If you're looking for a literary escape, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" could be your perfect companion. Murakami's signature blend of the surreal with the everyday offers a reading experience that defies ordinary life's boundaries. It's a collection that invites introspection and provides a unique form of storytelling that's both mystifying and grounding.
- Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006)
- Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
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ISBN: 9780307386328
Publisher: Vintage International
Date of Publication: 2007-07-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 39256 readers)
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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.
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Surreal tapestry intertwining dreams, reality, and desire.
If you're looking for a literary escape, "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" could be your perfect companion. Murakami's signature blend of the surreal with the everyday offers a reading experience that defies ordinary life's boundaries. It's a collection that invites introspection and provides a unique form of storytelling that's both mystifying and grounding.
- Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006)
- Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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