First Person Singular; Stories

Murakami, Haruki; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

ISBN 10: 1787302601 / ISBN 13: 9781787302600

Edité par Harvill Secker, London, 2021

A propos de cet article

250pp. Small 8vo. Black paper over boards, stamped spine, blind stamp of monkey on front boards. Dust jacket has a clear protective cover. Book has a complete number line starting with 1, and is a stated first UK printing (originally published in Japan in 2020). Book has eight stories, and is accompanied with a deck of 2021 Murakami Postcard Collection cards designed by Suzanne Dean. These cards consist of the covers of nine of his books. The original band is still present and has a very small tear at the top. Cards have not been removed from the band. Blurb says this is "A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami.".

N° de réf. du vendeur 0003485

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: First Person Singular; Stories
• Éditeur: Harvill Secker, London
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1787302601
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781787302600
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First UK edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. 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.

A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK

À propos de l?auteur

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.