Men Without Women: Stories (Hardcover)

from steve02476

Great short stories. I like his calm flat way of describing strange situations where people's emotions are very familiar even though the story is so weird.

from Devil_llama

This was my introduction to Murakami, and it wasn't what I expected. Everyone I know who is interested in the same sort of literature I read recommends Murakami, but most of them discuss his magical realism. There is some of that on display here, but it is not the focus of this collection of stor...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

Towards the end of the first story I had that inkling that the story would not resolve and we would be left hanging in that annoying post-modern way. And the second story too. After that I gave up expecting anything at all from this crock pot of mish-mash stories by a supposed master story teller...

from Dreesie

These short stories are more like snippets out of various men's days. Some may be part of one day, others encompass weeks or months or even describe years of living. The one thing all of these men have in common (other than being in Japan) is that they are all without a woman. They may be still s...

from modioperandi

A collection of paired down stories from the master of Weird Loneliness. After having read Men w/o Women and then read Killing Commendatore this collection feels like a series of sketches that lead to the overall feel and tone that Killing Commendatore brings to the fore. The fat and in many part...