Desire: Vintage Minis

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Paperback, 128 pages

English language

Published June 7, 2017 by Vintage Digital.

ISBN:
978-1-78487-263-2
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You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.

Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women

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reviewed Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami

A couple excellent short stories

This collection contains five short stories dealing with the topic of desire in some way. The five star rating is due to the first and last story that really resonated with me.

The first one demonstrates how love can be unreasonable, drastic and disruptive. It also carries a heavy mystical or fantastic undertone which is common for most of the stories in here.

The last story is more melancholy and deals with loneliness that butts up against a love too good to be true.

Subjects

  • Desire
  • Love