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NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne 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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About the Author

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

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Product details

Series: Vintage International

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9781101974520

ISBN-13: 978-1101974520

ASIN: 1101974524

Product Dimensions:

5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

188 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#25,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I've been a huge Murakami fan for years. I've thoroughly enjoyed his short stories, especially those from "Blind willow, sleeping woman". This is a short to medium length collecting of stories that are decidedly uneven.'Drive my car' begins the collection in a good way. It's simple, easy Murakami, a great way to get into the groove. This eases the reader into 'Yesterday', arguably the second best story of the collection. But of course this story was published in the New Yorker, so I've read it a couple of times. It's still available free online.Next we have a couple of rather ordinary stories (by Murakami standards): 'sheherazade' and 'an independent organ '. Both are written in the Murakami style, but neither really serves to grab the reader's attention.Following these is 'Kino', which is certainly the best story in this collection and arguably rates among the author's best short stories, in my humble opinion. This story alone pushes my rating to four stars instead of three. I pondered this story for days. It really sticks with you.Finishing the collecting are two stories that are good, but really pale after reading 'Kino'. 'Gregor Samsa in love' is a fun twist on the old Kafka story. It's a nice tribute to one of Murakami's biggest influences. And finishing the collection is the title story, little more than a few pages of musings by a vague protagonist.All in all average compared to previous collections by Murakami. I'd say read this if you're a fan, otherwise start out with earlier collections. But as a Murakami fan, it's worth the purchase just for Kino.

As I read these stories, they felt familiar to me. I've read a lot of Murakami books, so I have a grasp of how he writes, but it seemed like more than that. They were comfortable, sort of like visiting with old friends. I definitely enjoyed these stories.There is a bit of range in the styling of these. They do carry a common theme of men on their own, even when other characters, particularly women, have strong parts. Even though there are some related elements, such as infidelity, each one is distinct. The central male characters, their situations, and even the tone of the stories feel different.One thing that I love about Murakami's works is that they prominently feature the characters. Sometimes I will read things and the writer seems to be focused on an idea or plot point more than the character. Murakami is almost opposite of that. I love how we can delve into the characters' mindset and understand the pain, joy, confusion, etc. that is the crux of these moments. This might just be the best collection of Murakami stories.

On a scale of awkward to surreal, this compilation of Murakami short stories leans more towards the awkward end. In true Murakami style, you'll be exposed to subtle themes on dichotomy - the dueling contrasts within oneself, the contrasts between a man and a woman, and the contrasts between our personal microcosm and the external macrocosm. I like how Murakami balances these stories by interchanging characters throughout. For instance, he starts the book with a story of a man who befriends his late wife's lover, and ends the book with a story of a man who learns of the death of his ex-lover through her husband. Perhaps all the characters in these stories are all the same, and are stuck in an alternate reality/parallel universe, also known as the Murakami purgatory. Maybe Murakami is holding a mirror to our own reality showing us how sometimes we experience the requited and sometimes the unrequited. Or that none of us have "love antibodies" and that we'll eventually play the part of the weird, secretive and lonely protagonist found in many of his books. Perhaps he's showing us that love makes us blind (one character in the book literally has a "blind eye"); that love can cause so much pain we experience things that possibly never happened (Kino); or that we will never fully know or understand someone no matter how intimate you are with them (another common theme in Murakami's books.) Great easy read, simple storytelling with so much subtext. And that's what makes Murakami THE GREATEST writer of our times. In case you're wondering, yes there's a prostitute, a bar and a cat. It wouldn't be a Murakami book without them.

I love Murakami novels, big opuses, like 1q84, and smaller ones, like Sputnik Sweetheart. I picked this one up with a little hesitation concerned that shorter stories might fall short of what I am used to getting from Haruki.I am glad to tell you this: that worry turned out to be just a typical worry.. Just like that man who said: Who says worrying doesn't help. Whenever I worry about something, it doesn't happen! 8-)These are not short stories. Each is about 30 pages long. Not the novella size, probably (oh, gotta get to that last story that gave the collection its name) but just enough to make you feel content when you get to the end.Samsa like the others is a gem of a story. Wonderful sequel to the infamous novella from Kafka (not the one on the shore).So much more to say, but, "space" is much better as M., the woman we men all lost, declares aptly.. That wonderous nothing that is the beginning, the joyful middle and the ending of everything. Thanks H. M. Keep writing!

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