Vintage Murakami

Not since Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata has a Japanese writer won the international acclaim enjoyed hy Haruki Murakami. His genre- busting novels, short stones, and repodage, which have been translated into thirty-four languages, meld the surreal and the hard-boiled, deadpan comedy and delicate introspection.

Vintage Murakami includes the opening cnapter of the international bestseller Norwegian Wood; •’Lieueenant Mamiya’s Long Story: Parts I and II” from his monumental novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; “Shizuko Akashi” from: Underground, his nonfiction book on the Toyko subway attack 1995; and the short stories “Barn Burning,” and “honey pie.”

Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story “Ice Man.”
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Table of Contents
“Barn burning” from The Elephant vanished —
“Shizuko Akashi” from Underground —
“Honeypie” from After the Quake —
“Lieutenant Mamiya’s long stories: Part I” from the Wind-up bird chronicle —
“Lieutenant Mamiya’s long stories: Part II” from the Wind-up bird chronicle —
“Ice man.”