Vintage Books

Najnowszy zbiór opowiadań autorstwa Haruki Murakami. Historie zamieszczone w książce zostały napisane w latach 1981 - 2005. Wiele z tych opowiadań było zamieszczanych w magazynach literackich w Wielkiej Brytanii. Książka zawiera opowiadania tłumaczone przez Philipa Gabriel oraz Jay'a Rubin....

"Captivated" is a true story of genius and possession. The background is the turn of the century, when a late-nineteenth-century world of mesmerists, psychics, trancers and table-turners gave way to a new twentieth-century age of psychology. The central character is the creator of Peter Pan, the famous novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie, a man...

Presents the portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth....

Memoirs' tells a captivating second story between the exquisitely crafted lines of the central tale. Themes of survival and ambition, of exploitation and renewal filter through this parallel narrative into the reader's consciousness....If Golden had 'only' told Sayuri's life story, [it] would have been a beautifully detailed but time-locked novel....

'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate...What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house...

Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior. But, whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Jack Kerouac novel. Surprised...