First Person Singular: Stories -- Haruki Murakami, Hardcover

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.

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780593318072

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2020 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 12/07/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2021
Booklist 02/01/2021 pg. 17
Shelf Awareness 04/09/2021

About the Author
HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, whose previous recipients include Karl Ove Knausgård, Isabel Allende, and Salman Rushdie.