A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
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村上春树,日本现代小说家,生于京都伏见区。毕业于早稻田大学第一文学部演剧科,亦擅长美国文学的翻译,29岁开始写作,第一部作品《且听风吟》即获得日本群像新人奖,1987年第五部长篇小说《挪威的森林》上市至2010年在日本畅销一千万册,国内简体版到2004年销售总量786万,引起“村上现象”
其作品风格深受欧美作家的影响,基调轻盈,少有日本战后阴郁沉重的文字气息,被称作第一个纯正的“二战后时期作家”,并被誉为日本80年代的文学旗手。
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二十岁前后的那些日子,尽管我多次想要把它们记录下来,却怎么也做不到。当时,在我周围不断发生着各种各样的事情,应付这些已经使我精疲力竭了,根本没有余力停下步子,把那些事情一一写在本子上。况且,大多数事情都不是让我觉得"必须要写下来的事件"。那时的我,迎着扑面而来的狂风,勉强睁开眼睛,气喘吁吁地继续向前迈步,已经是极限了。
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