First Person Singular: Stories
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(1 ratings)256 pages2021Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780593318072
nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2021-04-25New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewedFiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, magical realismNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)MenFictionLonelinessGriefChildrenJapanese fictionTranslations into EnglishHommesRomans, nouvellesSolitudeChagrinEnfantsLivres numériquesE-books
About this book
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street Journal
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.
Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780593318072
- Language
- en
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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