BlindWillow,SleepingWoman

CONTENTS Title Page Introduction to the English Edition Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Birthday Girl New York Mining Disaster Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry The Mirror A Folklore for My Generation: A Pre-History of Late-Stage Capitalism Hunting Knife A Perfect Day for Kangaroos Dabchick Man-Eating Cats A “Poor Aunt” Story Nausea 1979 The Seventh Man The Year of Spaghetti Tony Takitani The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes The Ice Man Crabs Firefly Chance Traveler Hanalei Bay Where I’m Likely to Find It The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day A Shinagawa Monkey About the Author Also by Haruki Murakami Acclaim for Haruki Murakami’s: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Copyright INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION To put it in the simplest possible terms, I find writing novels a challenge, writing short stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rus......