Haruki Murakami, Trans. by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen
RaveThe Los Angeles TimesFor Murakami, the process of thinking is what matters, and in this collection of seven stories Murakami wants us to consider the paradoxical interrelatedness of love and loneliness, specifically, how certain men become 'Men Without Women' ... Time and again in these seven stories, Murakami displays his singular genius...when he manages to find a concrete image for human emotion ... The stories in this collection find their power within the confines of common but momentous disturbances that linger on in memory.