Men Without Women: Stories [B0188]

2018 PB. Including the story "Drive My Car"-now an Academy Award–nominated film-this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers"--Barack Obama. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka's Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A fantastic collection of introspective short stories! Murakami weaves stories of infidelity into a tapestry of the human soul. He lays bare our desire to truly know one another."; "Funny :)) I liked it."; "I really wanted to hate this because all the women are sex mad, freaks, adulterous or all of the above but I just couldn't help but enjoy it."