Haruki Murakami

Birthday Stories is a 2002 short story anthology edited by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite the theme's happy connotations most of the short stories have a dark, melancholic atmosphere.

In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with the catastrophe but the wider seismic effect it had on the emotional lives of people many …

Por uma noite, Murakami leva-nos com ele através de uma Tóquio sombria, onírica, hipnótica. Um deslumbrante romance perpassado de uma singular atmosfera poética, na fronteira entre a realidade e o universo fantasmático, onde cada pormenor, olhado retrospectivamente, faz sentido. Num bar, Mari encontra-se mergulhada …

A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances. Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But …