Article: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.(Book review)

**** Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 24 Stories By Haruki Murakami

Variations of intimate surrealism.

Jazz fan Haruki Murakami presents a number of bebop literary improvisations in what he calls his "first real short story collection" since 1991's The Elephant Vanishes. Stories previously published in The New Yorker join other short works dating back as far as 1980. Juxtaposing the real with the surreal (as in "Where I'm Likely to Find It"), interpersonal distance with social exclusion and emotional absence ("Man-Eating Cats," later incorporated into the novel Sputnik Sweetheart), and fictional narrative with autobiography ("A Folklore for My Generation," ...

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