Description

What if the person who could change your life is right there on the street—close enough to touch, yet gone before you can speak? In this collection, Haruki Murakami gathers five strange, intimate tales that explore desire in all its shifting forms, from hunger and lust to sudden obsession and the quiet, private yearnings we rarely admit. With his signature blend of dreamlike surrealism and razor-sharp emotional clarity, Murakami turns everyday moments into portals where longing becomes a kind of language. These stories probe the themes of fate versus choice, the uncanny nature of attraction, and the ways we narrate our own hearts when the world won’t give us answers.

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paperback edition cover

paperback

Vintage Digital

Published Apr 17, 1984

ISBN: 9781784872632

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Details

First Published

2017

Language

eng

Translation

From: jpn

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Desire by Haruki Murakami.

Sexual Content