![]() ![]() This collection is solid, recognizable Murakami with the usual attention to music, whiskey, sex and baseball. This volume has less punch and polish than The Elephant Vanishes and, as such perhaps should not serve as an introduction to Murakami, but nonetheless, these stories remain a welcome read for Murakami fans. Some stories are other-worldly while others are based in the mundane. He demonstrates how we wish into existence and remember into existence memories we are unwilling to abandon, such as how a one-night stand or a girl running down a high school hallway can stay with us and leave a lasting imprint.įirst Person Singular (translated by Philip Gabriel) is reminiscent of Murakami’s previous collection of short stories The Elephant Vanishes in that all the stories are told in the first person and in Murakami’s famous conversational style. Memoir or fiction? Murakami blurs the line between the two in First Person Singular, his most recent collection of stories where he tackles time, dreams, and memory (its power, lapses and distortions). Thanks for helping support Books on Asia! ![]()
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