These shimmering stories are testament to Murakami's talent and enduring creativity. In "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection," the collection's one nonfiction piece, Murakami recounts how baseball and writing, the twin passions of his youth, grew together in the stadium of his beloved Yakult Swallows. Murakami finds ample material in young love and sex, showcased in "On a Stone Pillow," in which a young man's brief tryst with a coworker, unremarkable in itself, takes on a degree of immortality after she mails him her poetry. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Large Print Edition, Paperback, 352 pages. These stories are steeped in the love of music. Chris Stanton, Vulture For new readers, First Person Singular is a crash course in appreciating Murakami. Murakami's gift for evocative, opaque magical realism shines in "Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," in which a review of a fictional album breathes new life into the ghost of the jazz great, and "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey," wherein a talking monkey ruminates with a traveler on love and belonging. First Person Singular: Stories (Paperback) Published April 20th 2021 by Random House Large Print Publishing. First Person Singular is no exception, offering ruminations on the fickleness of memory while fleeting from baseball to Beatlemania to a Kafka-inspired talking monkey. The one thing shared by the collection's eight stories is their use of the first-person-singular voice. Murakami's engrossing collection (after the novel Killing Commendatore) offers a crash course in his singular style and vision, blending passion for music and baseball and nostalgia for youth with portrayals of young love and moments of magical realism. A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
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