FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki Murakami

FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki MurakamiNATIONAL BEST SELLER A mind bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best selling author. Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it. The Wall Street Journal The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of

the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something

New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast s fateful calls

In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding

A complete stranger who had never even heard of him

Until hope surfaces in the shape of

still trapped as a cranky eleven-year-old boy

too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie

a downtrodden prostitute

entertaining and engaging

This book is about finding strength in God and in our capacity to be both human and beautiful--both flawed and inspired

innovative world of literary achievement

"Breathtaking and heartbreaking