<![CDATA[Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman]]>

false <![CDATA[Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178660247m/818123.jpg 9833 30 Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on the Shore—“daringly original,” wrote Steven Moore in The Washington Post Book World, “and compulsively readable”—comes a collection that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder has written in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “He addresses the fantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity and lightness.” Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might 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 grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be the closest of all. “While anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream,” Laura Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “it’s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves”—a feat performed anew twenty-four times in this career-spanning book. 1468406 book 29 8 2006 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman total:3033|5:653|4:1312|3:896|2:157|1:15| 3033 11530 4625 377 5 4 false false Sun Mar 18 22:31:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 02 13:24:27 -0700 2007
So. There was a guy I knew from smoke breaks at RH who happened to be like head of marketing for a bunch of the big imprints. He made me a casual offer one time that if there was any book I needed (in his division), I had to but ask and he...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 10 10:36:59 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 20 16:56:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 04 18:19:25 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 11:10:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Oct 26 19:24:49 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 19:25:42 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 10 15:33:15 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 01 22:19:04 -0800 2008
These stories were translate...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Sep 09 14:07:10 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 18:59:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 03:54:58 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 02:47:35 -0700 2007 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, which was my first introduction to Murakami's work (despite many, many recommendations of his work from friends). I felt a bit mixed about the whold adventure and never quite got into it the same way I was hoping to. The characters d...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 18:24:20 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 14 15:44:39 -0700 2008 blind willow, sleeping woman:
3 out of 5. excellent writing of course, but frankly, confusing and little to NO explanation.
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4 out of 5. loved it. wish it gave just a bit MORE at the end... but i'm not sure if it would have been as good if it had. ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 21:30:02 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 21:39:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 00:19:16 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 00:34:02 -0800 2009
I chose to start with short stories before i fina...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 07:02:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 07:04:01 -0700 2009

Depuis un an, quand on la prend de ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 14 09:24:56 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 09:34:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 15:35:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 23:54:02 -0700 2009
there are stories that create effective, moody little worlds ("blind willow, sleeping woman," "hunting knife," "tony takitani," "where i'm likely to find it"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 20:58:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 12:31:57 -0700 2009 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and South of the Border, West of the Sun), his short fiction took some getting used to. I read this second collection of short stories -- The Elephant Vanishes being the first, after the quake considered a "concept album"...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 14:50:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 14:55:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:47:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:47:46 -0800 2009 "Everything I write is a strange tale," Haruki Murakami says in his preface to this collection. Admittedly, his fusion of Eastern and Western elements of story and reality to create a uniquely surreal landscape of human and otherworldly experiences may be a little too strange for some read...

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