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Murakami is a reader's writer, a writer's writer, and above all a master storyteller. One of his ardent readers once told him she preferred his short stories to his novels, and, at the very least, this most recent collection gives any one of his novels a run for its money. Each story is completely absorbing: a broad landscape of the variety of humanity's interactions with happenstance. Murakami can translate the very air of a breath to the page and the page will breathe for us; he is a magician. The career-spanning stories in "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" are like a gathering of shells, stones, houseplants and forests out of Murakami's head. It would be a hot (silly) debate as to whether his short stories are actually better than his novels; it'd be like comparing apples to four-star meals (both extraordinary); it all depends on what you have room for.
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megcampbell3, November 6, 2007
Murakami is a reader's writer, a writer's writer, and above all a master storyteller. One of his ardent readers once told him she preferred his short stories to his novels, and, at the very least, this most recent collection gives any one of his novels a run for its money. Each story is completely absorbing: a broad landscape of the variety of humanity's interactions with happenstance. Murakami can translate the very air of a breath to the page and the page will breathe for us; he is a magician. The career-spanning stories in "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" are like a gathering of shells, stones, houseplants and forests out of Murakami's head. It would be a hot (silly) debate as to whether his short stories are actually better than his novels; it'd be like comparing apples to four-star meals (both extraordinary); it all depends on what you have room for.Terms and Conditions
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