Las ocho historias magistrales de esta nueva colección están contadas en primera persona por un narrador clásico de Murakami: un hombre solitario. Algunos de ellos son miradas nostálgicas a la juventud, mientras que otros están ambientados en la edad adulta. Ocasionalmente, un narrador que puede o no ser el propio Haruki está presente, lo que permite al lector trazar la línea entre las memorias y la ficción. The eight masterful stories in...

"Jun'ichir? Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut in 1910. This book presents three powerful stories of family life from the first decade of Tanizaki's career that foreshadow the themes the great writer would go...

"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...