![]() ![]() So perhaps Murakami is right to cleave to his preferred first-person singular, male perspective. The later version is tighter, more intimate, and more affecting. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. A Shinagawa Monkey, which ran in the New Yorker in 2006, is told in third person from the point of view of a woman who suddenly has trouble remembering her name. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. ![]() In true Murakami tale-telling perfection, it's devour-able.' QUICK TAKE: ' Mind-bending.touches beautifully on love, solitude, childhood memories, dreamlike scenarios, invented jazz albums and meditations on music. ![]()
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