In a dance with the delights of Murakami’s imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again

Ushers the reader into a hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart…this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world…Lewis Carroll meets Kafka with a touch of Philip K. Dick

Dazzlingly elegant…In a world where even the ground beneath our feet can’t be relied on, imagination becomes less of a luxury and more of a duty. It’s an obligation that Murakami is busily making his raison d’etre, to our very great advantage

In the world of literary fiction, Haruki Murakami is unquestionably a superstar…Many critics have touted Murakami for the Nobel Prize. If he can stay on this kind of form, he could be in with a chance

Murakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic

A neat, yet somehow insanely generous collection..ruthless honesty, a faintly feminine openness, a seeming ability to find beauty and even glory in the banal, the urban, the modern… [the story] ‘Honey Pie’ isn’t just a love story. It’s a piece of writing about the threads and snags of time, the tangles, the way things pan out and why. I couldn’t even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that’s Murakami’s magic. He speaks to a place so deep inside us that we can scarcely even reply

Beautifully nuanced stories, realistic snapshots of modern Japan enclosed in a fictional world that is seemingly trivial, but loaded with portent

A really imaginative collection where all the stories are intertwined and mysterious in that Murakami way

Murakami’s storytelling inspires intimacy. It’s the particular kind of intimacy that can evolve between a reader and a book, unspoken and unexpected, familiar, satisfying, strange.

Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami’s stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life.