Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and
the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans
Christian Andersen Literature Award, whose previous recipients
include J. K. Rowling, Isabel Allende, and Salman Rushdie.
www.harukimurakami.com
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, and
Esquire
“[A] beguilingly irresistible book. Like a lost lover, it holds on
tight long after the affair is over.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“Classic Murakami. . . . [His] voice—cool, poised, witty,
characterized by a peculiar blend of whimsy and poignancy, wit and
profundity—hasn’t lost its power to unsettle even as it amuses.”
—The Boston Globe
“Time and again in these seven stories, Murakami displays his
singular genius.” —Los Angeles Times
“Intimate, captivating and poignant. . . . A short story is brief
enough to be perfectible—and Men Without Women showcases that.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Beautifully rendered.” —Financial Times
“Affecting. . . . Murakami is a master of the open-ended mystery. .
. . His meandering, mesmerizing tales of profound alienation are
driven by puzzling circumstances that neither his characters nor
readers can crack—recalling existentialist Gabriel Marcel’s
assertion that ‘Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to
be experienced.’” —The Washington Post
“[Murakami] remains in top form.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Each of the seven stories here [is] a gem in and of its own right,
but strung together they’re a sparkling strand of precious stones,
the light refracted from each equally brilliant but the tones
varying subtly. . . . I have something of a love/hate relationship
with short stories. Too many mediocre offerings leave me despairing
of the genre, but then a collection like Men Without Women comes
along and all is forgiven, my faith restored in the recognition of
how utterly perfect the medium can be—in the right hands.” —Lucy
Scholes, The Independent
“Charming and funny.” —Vulture
“The best of these stories hold the excitement of a quest: These
odd episodes of awakening desire show men startled into an
awareness of how they have shorted themselves on life.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Murakami’s greatest strength is his creation of environments just
eccentric enough to wrong-foot you—not exactly magical realism, but
perhaps enigmatic realism. . . . When his writing is at its best,
his characters act as a fisheye lens through which to scrutinize a
slightly off-kilter world that surrounds them.” —The New
Republic
“Masterful. . . . The mundane gives way suddenly, like an ice floe
cracking under our feet, only to reconstitute itself a moment later
and swallow up that brief glimpse of what lies below.” —Vice
“A whimsical delight. . . . Sanity might be overrated, but Murakami
is surely not.” —The Christian Science Monitor
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