Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Oct 2, 2024 6:32 PM

Author:Haruki Murakami

An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories.

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.

'An intimate pleasure' The Times

Reviews

More insights into life, death, memories, love and kangaroos that one has a right to expect in any single volume

—— Daily Express

An intimate pleasure

—— The Times

Literature's answer to David Lynch

—— Times Literary Supplement

These stories are rich in Murakami magic... a collection that all readers will enjoy

—— Independent

Sharp but humane observation...as unforgettable as it is untypical

—— New Statesman

Although Murakami's style and deadpan humour are wonderfully distinctive, his emotional territory is more familiar - remorse, unresolved confusion, sudden epiphanies - though heightened by the surreal... For all its peculiarity, Planet Murakami offers a recognisable landscape of our fears

—— Observer

Disarming, amusing and reveals his lightness of touch

—— Scotland on Sunday

A beguiling collection that shows off Murakami's bold inventiveness and deep compassion

—— Metro

Murakami is excellent at creating an intense mood in a swift few lines... always provocative and never less than engaging

—— Daily Telegraph

By turns disturbing and delightful, funny strange and funny ha-ha...Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a handsome volume of prose, every bit as substantial as a novel...They show him at his very best; not as a cult novelist but as a really first-rate writer of short fiction

—— Guardian

Funny but also sad and wise

—— Sunday Telegraph

Murakami’s fictional world is extraordinary.

—— The Sunday Times

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