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First Person Singular

Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides.

Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist.
©2021 Haruki Murakami (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Not the best of Murakami but still intriguing

After enjoying the masterfully written novels by Murakami, I wanted to venture into the world of short stories by him. And honestly I was not disappointed. His short stories were similarly weird, deftly woven and could bewilder readers with various strange, out of the ordinary events. But in the end, it lacked substance in most of the stories. Some seemed hastily and abruptly finished, some lazily written, a few outright rambling. The confessions of a Shinagawa monkey, With the Beatles and On A Stone Pillow were excellent as well as Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection which was quite intriguing but the others fell flat in the end or wasn't simply his best.

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bleak and sometimes mundane

the author is describing daily routine. stories are just dull and shy of remarkable structure that a story must have. I think the author must have been inspired by the legendary Anton Chekov but in first person. The author surely misses the Chekov's Gun here. I will rate this as average at best.

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