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This collection gathers eight masterful short stories, each narrated in the first person by a classic Murakami voice. The tales range from nostalgic memories of youth and meditations on music to an ardent love of baseball, a talking monkey, and invented jazz albums. Blurring the boundaries between mind and external reality, the stories invite readers to question whether they are memoirs or fiction. Themes of love, solitude, childhood, and memory recur throughout, all rendered with Murakami’s distinctive lyrical style.
First publish date: 2020
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: 村上春樹
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