Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Haruki Murakami

This is my 1st book by the author - actually 1.5th. Ages ago I tried to read his famous Norwegian Wood, but couldn’t enter into the story and didn’t finish it. Since then, I’ve been avoiding this author’s books. Then I read a good article about his work recently and decided try to enter his world once again. It worked this time - I finished this collection with great speed and throughly enjoyed all the tales in it. So if you are wondering whether or not you want spend your time reading his books, I recommend to try this collection. I think you won’t be disappointed.

Most of the stories are really interesting and Marukami's style is always captivating. The only disappointment was the last story where a key protagonist is a monkey that actually talks to humans- I thought this story was a bit silly and frankly it seemed like the author did not know how to finish the story so came up with a wacky storyline to fill the void. This book is not as good as his last book 'Men without women' - hence 4 stars.

This was a very interesting and enjoyable read, more on the serious than the funny side but we'll balanced regardless. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys slice of life and psychological themes. I would warn that most of these short stories don't have a concrete in book conclusion, so if you don't enjoy that you may be disappointed. Finally most of the stories are set in the author's homeland, Japan. The translators did a very good job as far as I could see.

Package delivered quickly,without problems and in perfect state.

Book I’m sure will be a great one as have loved all from this author so far, however whoever packaged it sealed the sticky part of packaging to the front of the book so it’s arrived damaged, and can’t peel the rest off with causing further damage to the book :(

I think that this author is very interesting. His short stories are always different and have subtle twists. Ihave read several of his books. Peter Cathcart.

I’m only half way through this book, but I’m already convinced that it is class. Murakami’s ideas, themes and narratives combined with the characters, the plots, descriptive writing, symbolism and metaphors are unique and sublime... and this collection of stories has all of those qualities in abundance.

Atmospheric, enigmatic, gentle, seductive, Murakami - what do you say! I am addicted to his writing - seven books; one after the other - last time I did that was with Virginia Woolf,,,