Publication

2004 - Vintage Books, New York

Language

English

Word Count

45,500 words, Guess

Page Count

182 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCPL856.U673A2 2004

Description

Contains: "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."

Description

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 shod stories "Barn Burning," and "honey pie." Also included, for the first time in book form, the shod story "Ice Man." --back cover

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