You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.
Selected from Haruki's Murakami's short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men without Women.
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[I'M STILL NOT sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack - THE SECOND BAKERY ATTACK]***
(@vintagebooks, 8 June 2017, 128 pages, ebook, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book featuring one of the seven deadly sins, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I'm a huge fan of Murakami so was delighted when I stumbled across this short selection of some of his stories when randomly browsing the Kindle store. I enjoyed every story in this short book. Birthday Girl is the only one I've read before but it's a great story so I enjoyed reading it again. The first story The Second Bakery Attack is the best in the collection. It's such a surprising, funny and delightful story. I loved it. What impressed me about this short book is that despite each story focusing on the theme of Desire, Murakami does not stick with the obvious, sexual desire so the stories are often surprising. There are a bunch of short books available in the Vintage Minis series which I will probably check out.
