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ALSO BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
FICTION 1Q84 * After Dark * After the Quake * Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman * Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage * Dance Dance Dance * The Elephant Vanishes * Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World * Kafka on the Shore * Norwegian Wood * South of the Border, West of the Sun * Sputnik Sweetheart * A Wild Sheep Chase * The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
NONFICTION * Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche * What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.
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My mother died last Tuesday. She had been suffering from a mysterious illness, and that morning she quietly slipped away. There was a simple funeral, and now I am totally alone. No mother. No pet starling. No sheep man. No girl. I lie here by myself in the dark at two o’clock in the morning and think about that cell in the library basement. About how it feels to be alone, and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.
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The library was even more hushed than usual.
My new leather shoes clacked against the grey linoleum. Their hard, dry sound was unlike my normal footsteps. Every time I get new shoes, it takes me a while to get used to their noise.
A woman I’d never seen before was sitting at the circulation desk, reading a thick book. It was extraordinarily wide. She looked as if she were reading the right-hand page with her right eye, and the left-hand page with her left.
“Excuse me,” I said.
She slammed the book down on her desk and peered up at me.
“I came to return these,” I said, placing the books I was carrying on the counter. One was titled How to Build a Submarine, the other Memoirs of a Shepherd.
The librarian flipped their front covers back to check the due date. They weren’t overdue. I’m always on time, and I never hand things in late. That’s the way my mother taught me. Shepherds are the same. If they don’t stick to their schedule, the sheep go completely bananas.
The librarian stamped “Returned” on the card with a flourish and resumed her reading.
“I’m looking for some books, too,” I said.
“Turn right at the bottom of the st ............

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