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Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction Humorous fiction Magic realist fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Men without women. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 (DLC) 2016045518 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel; Ted Goossen |
ISBN: | 9780451494627 0451494628 9781101974520 1101974524 9780385689441 0385689446 9781911215370 191121537X |
OCLC Number: | 956957492 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
Description: | 227 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Drive my car -- Yesterday -- An independent organ -- Scheherazade -- Kino -- Samsa in love -- Men without women. |
Series Title: | McNaughton lease books. |
Other Titles: | Onna no inai Otokotachi. |
Responsibility: | Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. |
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"Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories. . . Murakami has a marvellous understanding of youth and age - and the failings of each" * Observer * "Murakami writes of complex things with his usual beguiling simplicity. . . Strangely invigorating to read. . . It is Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best" * Financial Times * "Calculatedly provocative. . ., the stories offer sweet-sour meditations on human solitude and a yearning to connect. . . Murakami, always inventive, is one of the finest popular writers at work today" -- Ian Thomson * Evening Standard * "Written with all the cats, spaghetti, humor, and gentle surrealism we might expect . . . Men Without Women is a funny, lovely, unmistakably Murakami collection of seven stories about the lives of people trying to find their place in the world and reckoning with their pasts" * Buzzfeed * "A disconcertingly funny portrait of modern loneliness" -- Hayley Maitland * Vogue * "Self-schooled and uncontaminated by writerly edicts, the 68-year-old presents subjects directly on a platter before the reader. . . but stirs up all kinds of themes and truths in the allegorical mud through his gentle, almost conversational style" -- Hilary A White * Irish Independent * "One of the finest pieces of short-form writing I have enjoyed in many years... If the familiar way of Haruki Murakami are an enthusiasm, there is plenty here to divert the aficionado, but he also takes a turn into riskier territory that could well coax new readers into his distinctive world" -- Keith Bruce * Herald * "Moments of melancholy and humour mix with acute observation in the latest offering by Japan's master storyteller" -- Angel Gurria-Quintana * Financial Times * Read more...


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