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"Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール, Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002.After reading "Timothy's Birthday" by William Trevor and "The Moor" by Russell Banks, Murakami felt haunted and decided to collect more birthday-themed stories for an anthology. [2]
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (めくらやなぎと眠る女, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna) is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.. The stories contained in the book were written between 1980 and 2005, and published in Japan in various magazines and collections.
The 1963/1982 Girl from Ipanema (1963/1982年のイパネマ娘; 1963/1982-nen no Ipanema-musume) is a short story by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, written in 1982. The title references " The Girl from Ipanema ", the famous Bossa nova song that was first released in March 1964 in the album Getz/Gilberto .
The book's cover artwork was done by Tetsuya Toyoda . [29] An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published on 6 April 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf (US) [2] and Harvill Secker (UK). [30] It is Murakami's first collection of short stories since Men Without Women (2014) and his first published book since the novel Killing Commendatore (2017). [3]
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. [1] The novel is a nostalgic story of loss. [2] It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo. [3]
Murakami selected and translated the texts, adding an original short story of his own (later collected into his Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, 2006).For the English edition at Harvill Press (using the original English-language versions of the stories), he added an introduction and selected one more story, Claire Keegan’s “Close to the Water’s Edge”.
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami.
In Murakami’s first four books, no characters had been given names, except for comical or ironic ones. This changed with Norwegian Wood and then Dance Dance Dance, his sixth book, saw him adding some names. He even retroactively names one character from A Wild Sheep Chase – a woman called Kiki. Even with real names, however, Murakami is ...