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An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories.
Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we 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 loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.
'An intimate pleasure' The Times
Rezensionen / Stimmen
More insights into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos that one has a right to expect in any single volume * Daily Express * An intimate pleasure * The Times * Literature's answer to David Lynch * Times Literary Supplement * These stories are rich in Murakami magic... a collection that all readers will enjoy * Independent * Sharp but humane observation...as unforgettable as it is untypical * New Statesman * Although Murakami's style and deadpan humour are wonderfully distinctive, his emotional territory is more familiar - remorse, unresolved confusion, sudden epiphanies - though heightened by the surreal... For all its peculiarity, Planet Murakami offers a recognisable landscape of our fears * Observer * Disarming, amusing and reveals his lightness of touch * Scotland on Sunday * A beguiling collection that shows off Murakami's bold inventiveness and deep compassion * Metro * Murakami is excellent at creating an intense mood in a swift few lines... always provocative and never less than engaging * Daily Telegraph * By turns disturbing and delightful, funny strange and funny ha-ha...Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a handsome volume of prose, every bit as substantial as a novel...They show him at his very best; not as a cult novelist but as a really first-rate writer of short fiction * Guardian *
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Höhe: 199 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 34 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-09-948866-8 (9780099488668)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.
In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
