You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Men Without Women.
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Desire: Vintage Minis
You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Men Without Women.
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Reviewed by LarisaThis is my first book I've read of Murakami, because some of my friends would not stop talking about him. One even said: "I don't read much. But I read Murakami." At first I thought it was a religious book because he spoke the name as if it were holy. So naturally, when I was in a bookstore and this was on sale, with MURAKAMI and a heart behind it on a sign, I thought "Huh. I got to read it." And I did. And...I must say...I expected more. I waited for that otherworldly experience, but it just wouldn't set in. Shortstories just aren't for me, I guess. "Desire" contains 5 short stories that all (I guess?) have to do with desire in some way. Let me describe to you the feeling I had when reading them: You enter a bakery starving, after you saw a sign outside praising to have the most delicious cake in town - or even better: In the entire country! So you stumble into it, absolutely famished, to see that one piece is left. Your mouth begins to water, you go and order it and they bring it to you and it smells absolutely heavenly. You sit down, take your fork...and while you only have a tiny piece on your fork, you make an unexpected movement and your plate with the cake falls down. You try the fork and the cake...it's not really special. You wonder if the cake on the floor would have tasted better. Maybe if you would have more cream on it. Maybe only that little piece wasn't that good. You'll never know. And you'll go on starving, wondering if there could have been MORE. The short stories would start off good - Murakami certainly has a good style of writing. And you think it's going somewhere, that there is something to learn, you are waiting for the AAHHHH-moment - and then it just ends and leaves you disappointed and hanging. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL YOU GET!, Murakami seems to say. And I hate it. "THE SECOND BAKERY ATTACK" Two newly-weds have a certain hunger and think if they rob a bakery it will solve it. So they rob a McDonald's. The wife seems overly experienced while preparing this criminal activity. That's it. What the hell was that all about? We'll never find out
Reviewed by NewaThere’s a thin line between tragedy and comedy