First Person SingularThe eight masterly stories in this 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 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

and historians of art and culture

In the section of new poems there are explorations of the need for love

The book takes you on a tour of the Earth through the things made by nature

Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University

beliefs and relationships with each other chronicle both its trajectory and its legacy

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The second novel from the author of the phenomenon

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The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat

she is pulled out of the sea and strung up on the dock as a trophy

assisted must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen

Convinced by her adult children to finally do something for herself