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Haruki Murakami

The Second Bakery Attack

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I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.


A Long Way From Stuffed Cabbage

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Sometimes I meet a person who says I've had so many interesting experiences that I can write lots of books about them.


Princeton

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It was in the summer of 1984 that I visited Princeton, New Jersey for the first time.


On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning

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One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo's fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.


Honey Pie

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"So Masakichi got his paws full of honey—way more honey than he could eat by himself—and he put it in a pail..."


Landscape with Flatiron

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Junko was watching television when the phone rang a few minutes before midnight


Kino

Featured in The New Yorker

The man always sat in the same seat, the stool farthest down the counter.


Samsa in Love

Featured in The New Yorker

He woke to discover that he had undergone a metamorphosis and become Gregor Samsa.


Yesterday

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As far as I know, the only person ever to put Japanese lyrics to the Beatles song “Yesterday”.


Town of Cats

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At Koenji Station, Tengo boarded the Chuo Line inbound rapid-service train. The car was empty.


UFO in Kushiro

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Short story about a Japanese man who attempts to piece together his reaction to his divorce by taking a trip north to bleak Hokkaido.


A Walk to Kobe

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In May of 1997, two years after the massive earthquake in Kobe, I hit upon the idea of taking a leisurely, solitary walk from Nishinomiya to Sannomiya in downtown Kobe.


The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day

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Junpei was sixteen years old when his father made a surprising pronouncement


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