Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Author: Haruki Murakami

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami’s characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the limelight.

Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan's best-known novelist abroad.