Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - stories by Haruki Murakami

[grady]

This just came out last week stateside. It's a wide range of short stories from the past two decades or so culled from a variety of published sources ranging from the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Granta, Harper's, The Harvard Review, etc etc.

I've only made it about four stories into the collection thus far. My initial impulse which I've been resisting to quite well is to plow through the collection of stories in one fell swoop one evening. At this point I'm trying to savor each story, letting them resonate for a bit before having them all blur together.

So far they're pretty amusing and there is a pervasive sadness running concurrent through the four stories I've read. I'll probably end up finishing it by the end of the week despite plan to hold onto the book longer.