Men Without Women
Ratings103
Average rating3.7
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Ratings103
Average rating3.7
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.
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Men without women is a collection of stories about men who have in one way or another lost an important woman in their lives, not what I believed the book would be about - A world without women at all.
Which author do you read if you want a story high with emotion and ends abruptly?
Say it with me - Mura effing kami.
A 40 page short story without a definitive ending? wew
His work HAS to be enjoyed through novels. Short stories are great BUT in my opinion, you need to be engrossed in a story for a while to care about the characters, and 40 pages doesn't do it for me.
It's been a long time since I've read any Murakami, but I always enjoy him, and the various translators for this collection of short stories are excellent. I think “Samsa in Love” is my favorite, probably because it's the weirdest and I love Murakami most when he gets weird, but even the stories with no magical realism elements were solid reads, and I'd recommend them.
An interesting (and sometimes weird) collection of stories! More of a 3.5/5, but rounded up to 4/5 here.
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