Murakami Haruki Birnbaum Alfred Jay (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. With the same deep-head mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami makes this collection of seventeen stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanished into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attack of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in themiddle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows through her backyard - and more! 327p.

paperback. Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-327,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand, in English and Japanese, dated about a month after publication. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $21.00). Murakami's third English-language publication and his first collection of short fiction, gathering 17 stories, including "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday's Women," "Sleep," "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning," and "TV People." Murakami has always been a reluctant signer who does very few publicity events; contemporary signatures in early titles are uncommon. Rubin 16.