First Person Singular

These eight stories, all told in the first person, showcase Haruki Murakami's reality-bending skills at their very finest. From memories of youth, meditations of music, and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios and imaginary jazz albums, together these tales challenge the boundary between the mind and the real world. Here we encounter men analyzing tanka poems written by a former lover, experiencing the throes of Beatlemania, and having a beer with a talking monkey. And, occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself. Philosophical mad mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood memory - with a signature Murakami twist.