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The first person singular : stories / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
"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 A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. 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
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593349229
- ISBN: 0593349229
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (05 hr., 28 min., 44 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cream -- On a stone pillow -- Charlie Parker plays Bossa Nova -- With the Beatles -- Confessions of a Shinagawa monkey -- Carnaval -- The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection -- First person singular. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kotaro Watanabe. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive; viewed April 9, 2021). |
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| Subject: | Men > Fiction. Loneliness > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Children > Fiction. Children. Grief. Loneliness. Men. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Japanese fiction > Translations into English. Audiobooks. Fiction. Short stories. Audiobooks. Short stories. |
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Summary:
"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 A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. 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