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The stories contained in the book were written between. Blind willow, sleeping woman is a worthwhile foray into this esteemed authors shorter works while waiting for his next suretobe marvelous fulllength literary masterpiece. Blind willow, sleeping woman by haruki murakami librarything. In that sense, then, the present book, blind willow, sleeping woman, is the first real short story collection ive brought out abroad in a long time. With varying lengths and levels of inscrutability, the stories contained in the book are an excellent and accessible introduction to murakamis magical realism. Blind willow, sleeping woman signed haruki murakami. This page contains details about the fiction book blind willow, sleeping woman by haruki murakami published in 2006.
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