Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
Book Summary Information
Author: Haruki MurakamiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: 1400044618
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Knopf
Book Reviews of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Book Review: a meander through a magical world
Summary: 5 Stars
A writer that expresses perfectly the isolation and loneliness of the modern world, Murakami's short stories are like peering through a dozen windows into a world where fantasy and reality mix, seperate and blend together again. His talent lies in the ability to take the mundane and make it fantastic, offering us a peek into ordinary lives sprinkled with the kind of surreal conversations and events that make you look around you whilst in the street or on the bus and wonder what all these people around you are really like.I can't read any of his work without seeing the world differently afterwards, and this collection i could read over and over. Impossible to pigeon hole, each story has it's own distinct mood, but in each the atmosphere persists; that the world has a beauty that, if we just scratch the surface off the everyday, will be revealed.
If you're new to Murakami, start here or with The Elephant Vanishes, if you're familiar with his writing you will need no persuasion.
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