Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami [U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2006 • Knopf

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami 

U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2006] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with a few flaws:

Dust jacket shows some visible but mild wear mostly to edges; otherwise clean and vibrant. 

Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself features 2-tone boards;  *small stain / blemish on lower frontal gray board.  

Otherwise book is excellent.  Reads like new!

This collection of twenty-four stories generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining.

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami’s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.

Following the success of Kafka on the Shore comes a collection that gives full rein to Murakami's inventive mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising and relentlessly entertaining.