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CONTENTS
Title Page
Introduction to the English Edition
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Birthday Girl
New York Mining Disaster
Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry
The Mirror
A Folklore for My Generation: A Pre-History of Late-Stage Capitalism
Hunting Knife
A Perfect Day for Kangaroos
Dabchick
Man-Eating Cats
A “Poor Aunt” Story
Nausea 1979
The Seventh Man
The Year of Spaghetti
Tony Takitani
The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes
The Ice Man
Crabs
Firefly
Chance Traveler
Hanalei Bay
Where I’m Likely to Find It
The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day
A Shinagawa Monkey
About the Author
Also by Haruki Murakami
Acclaim for Haruki Murakami’s: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Copyright
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
To put it in the simplest possible terms, I find writing novels a challenge, writing short stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.
Since my debut as a fiction writer in 1979 I’ve fairly consistently alternated between writing novels and short stories. My pattern’s been this: once I finish a novel, I find I want to write some short stories; once a group of stories is done, then I feel like focusing on a novel. I never write any short stories while I’m writing a novel, and never write a novel while I’m working on short stories. The two types of writing may very well engage different parts of the brain, and it takes some time to get off one track and switch to the other.
It was only after I began my career with two short novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, that I started, from 1980 to 1981, to write short stories. The first three I ever wrote were “A Slow Boat to China,” “A ‘Poor Aunt’ Story,” and “New York Mining Disaster.” I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable. I felt the possibilities of my fictional world expand by several degrees. And readers seemed to appreciate this other side of me as a writer. “A Slow Boat to China” was collected in my first English short story colle ............

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