The release date for the English version of 'First Person Singular: Stories' by
Haruki Murakami is Apr 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An intriguing new collection of short stories by the well-liked and widely recognized author Haruki Murakami.
This new collection of eight excellent stories is presented in the first person by a lonely man, a typical Murakami narrator. Some of them are nostalgic views back at youth, such as Cream, With the Beatles, and On a Stone Pillow. Some are established in maturity—Charlie Parker performs the magnificent title story, Bossa Nova, Carnaval, and Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey. Occasionally, like in The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection, there is a narrator who might or might not be Haruki himself. Is it fiction or memoir? The choice is made by the reader. The stories all have a characteristic Murakami twist and touch tenderly on themes of love and loss, infancy and death.