From the surreal to the mundane, a masterful anthology of short fiction by the award-winning Japanese writer captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship in works that chronicle a chance reunion in Italy, a holiday in Hawaii, a romantic exile in Greece, and more. Reprint The twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami's mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami's ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining. Introduction to the English Edition ix Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 3(16) Birthday Girl 19(14) New York Mining Disaster 33(12) Airplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry 45(10) The Mirror 55(6) A Folklore for My Generation: A Pre-History of Late-Stage Capitalism 61(23) Hunting Knife 84(16) A Perfect Day for Kangaroos 100(5) Dabchick 105(7) Man-Eating Cats 112(19) A ``Poor Aunt'' Story 131(20) Nausea 1979 151(12) The Seventh Man 163(15) The Year of Spaghetti 178(6) Tony Takitani 184(20) The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes 204(5) The Ice Man 209(10) Crabs 219(7) Firefly 226(23) Chance Traveler 249(20) Hanalei Bay 269(22) Where I'm Likely to Find It 291(21) The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day 312(21) A Shinagawa Monkey 333