First Person Singular
Books | Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
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Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “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 JournalThe 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.
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More Details:
Author
Haruki Murakami
Pages
256
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2021-04-06
ISBN
0593318080 9780593318089
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"Deep, expressive storytelling. Masterful."
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Marcus
"I hate how Murakami makes me feel sometimes. A couple of his books will stay with me forever, I’ll never forget them even if I wanted to, and then there are other books of his, like this one, that I feel like I missed something.
Most of these short stories left me feeling upset or confused and seemed incomplete but I did enjoy ‘Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey’."
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Katie
"A nice collection of short stories. Very good imagery, although a couple felt less like stories and more just like rambling (looking at you Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection)"
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Kolin Murphy
"There were a few lines in this book I found thought-provoking, but a lot of it seemed like it was trying too hard for depth or some kind of metaphysical shock value. One of the stories unexpectedly described a graphic sexual encounter, so be warned."
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Sofos
"Extremely well-written collection.<br/>Favorite story was "On a Stone Pillow" and least favorite was "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection.""
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awesome_user_53873
"There were like 2 interesting pages in a whole book"
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Mariia Maksymenko
"Murakami mwah."
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Ariana Neal
"No@"
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Ivan Zurita