"Drive My Car" 1st Ed Haruki Murakami Men Without Women 2014 Japanese
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"Drive My Car" 1st Ed Haruki Murakami Men Without Women 2014 Japanese Hardcover Includes "Drive My Car" nominated for four Academy Awards at the 94th Academy Awards. Won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Description **“Men Without Women”** is a collection of short stories published by Haruki Murakami in 2014. It generated a lot of buzz as his first short story collection in about nine years, since *Tokyo Stories*. Included Stories (6 in total) Drive My Car Yesterday An Independent Organ Scheherazade Kino Men Without Women (newly written) As the title suggests, the common theme is “men who have lost women.” However, these are not simply “stories about single men.” As Haruki Murakami himself states in the preface, the stories depict “men who have been left by women for various reasons, or men who are about to be left.” The characters include: an actor who has lost his wife a doctor whose lover has left him a man whose life was turned upside down by his wife’s affair a man who learns of the death of a former lover and so on—the stories center primarily on middle-aged and older men. A Distinctive Feature Within Murakami’s Body of Work It differs slightly from romantic novels like *Norwegian Wood*, as well as from fantasy novels like *Kafka on the Shore*. Loss Loneliness Memory Others who cannot be understood The disconnect between men and women These themes are quietly explored. A defining feature of many of these works is that they offer no clear answers to
- Year: 2014
- Condition: Very Good
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