First Person Singular
Author
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Year
2022
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
256
ISBN
978-0593311189
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.— Google Books
Press Reviews
- The Guardianby Rob Doyle · Apr 2021
The Japanese author’s prose remains wildly popular, but complacency tarnishes his new story collection
- The Guardianby David Hayden · Apr 2021
In these underpowered short stories, the female characters are mere pretexts for male epiphany
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