![]() ‘ So I’m telling a younger friend of mine about a strange incident that took place back when I was eighteen.’Īfter the first story, Cream, I wasn’t sure. Several stories in the book were also previously published in English in The New Yorker and Granta. The other seven stories in the book were first published in the literary magazine Bungakukai between summer 2018 and winter 2020. Having read and enjoyed his longer fiction ( 1q84, Kafka on the Shore, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) and his non-fiction ( What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) I wasn’t sure how he could condense the magic, the mystery and the Murakami weirdness into a shorter format successfully.Īll but one of the eight stories in this collection have been published elsewhere at different times. First Person Singular has been my first foray into Murakami as a writer of short stories. ![]()
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