"Murakami is not popular throughout the world because he consciously integrates Western ideas and language into his fiction, but because his work-fueled by a tension with his forebears-fuses cultures, or perhaps leaps over them, defying time, beating like pop songs, touching universal nerve. Avid fans might notice that six stories previously appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Freeman's, but to savor the collection in full will undoubtedly prove to be a beguiling gift" TERRY HONG "Murakami writes with such assurance as to turn the implausible credible, the outlandish engrossing.
"Most of the narrators foreground the act of telling and ruminate on the intention behind and effects of disclosing secrets, putting inchoate impulses, fears, or yearnings into clear, logical prose.This mesmerizing collection would make a superb introduction to Murakami for anyone who hasn't yet fallen under his spell his legion of devoted fans will gobble it up and beg for more." PRISCILLA GILMAN "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection" is a nonfiction piece about the author's joint obsession with baseball and writing. "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" is playfully narrated by a talking monkey, who has some other talents, as well. In "On a Stone Pillow," a young man's affair with a colleague deepens when she sends him her poems. His trademark magic realism appears in "Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," in which an album review brings the title musician's ghost back to life.
Many of Murakami's characteristic themes shine here, including baseball, music (from jazz to the Beatles), and young romance. THE STORIES: The title indicates what the book's eight stories have in common: the same form of narration. This is his fifth short story collection, after Men Without Women (**** July/Aug 2017). His 14 novels include 1Q84 (***** Jan/Feb 2012), Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (**** Nov/Dec 2014), and Killing Commendatore (**** Jan/Feb 2019). Japanese author Haruki Murakami's works have been translated into 50 languages. APA style: First Person Singular: Stories.First Person Singular: Stories." Retrieved from MLA style: "First Person Singular: Stories." The Free Library.
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