Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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| Author | Haruki Murakami |
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| Translator | Philip Gabriel, Jay Rubin |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | General Fiction |
| Publisher | Harvill Seeker (UK) / Knopf (US) |
| Released | July 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 334 (UK hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-84343-269-2 ISBN 1-4000-4461-8 (US) |
| Preceded by | Kafka on the Shore |
| Followed by | After Dark |
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
The stories contained in the book were written between 1981 and 2005 and this collection was first published in English in 2006. Around half of the stories were translated by Philip Gabriel with the other half being translated by Jay Rubin. In this collection the stories are generally ordered to alternate between the different translators.
Murakami considers this to be his first real collection of short stories since The Elephant Vanishes (1991) and considers after the quake (2002) to be more akin to a concept album as its stories were designed to produce a cumulative effect.[1]
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Many of the stories in the collection have been published previously in literary magazines, although some have been revised for Blind Willow. The stories are listed below in the order in which they appear in the book.
| Title | Previously published in[2] | Year Written[1] |
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| Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Harper's | 1995 |
| Birthday Girl | Harper's and Birthday Stories | 2002 |
| New York Mining Disaster | 1980 / 1981 | |
| Aeroplane:Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry | The New Yorker | |
| The Mirror | 1981 / 1982 | |
| A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism | The New Yorker | 1989 |
| Hunting Knife | The New Yorker | 1984 |
| A Perfect Day for Kangaroos | 1981 / 1982 | |
| Dabchick | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern | 1981 / 1982 |
| Man-Eating Cats | The New Yorker | 1991 |
| A 'Poor Aunt' Story | The New Yorker | 1980 / 1981 |
| Nausea 1979 | 1984 | |
| The Seventh Man | Granta | 1996 |
| The Year of Spaghetti | The New Yorker | 1981 / 1982 |
| Tony Takitani | The New Yorker | 1990 |
| The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes | 1981 / 1982 | |
| The Ice Man | The New Yorker | 1991 |
| Crabs | Storie #50 | 2003[3] |
| Firefly | Extract from Norwegian Wood | 1983 |
| Chance Traveller | Harper's | 2005 |
| Hanalei Bay | 2005 | |
| Where I'm Likely to Find It | The New Yorker | 2005 |
| The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day | 2005 | |
| A Shinagawa Monkey | The New Yorker | 2005 |
The final five stories all appeared in the book Tōkyō Kitanshū (Strange Tales From Tokyo), published in Japan in 2005.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Murakami, Haruki (2006). "Introduction to the English edition", Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
- ^ Murakami, Haruki (2006). "Publishers notes, English edition", Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
- ^ "Storie 50", Leconte Editore, April 2003, p. 2. (in English, Italian)
- ^ Waseda.jp Archives
