TY - BOOK AU - Murakami, Haruki TI - First person singular SN - 9780593311189 AV - FIC .M87 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Vintage International KW - ENGLISH -- FICTION N1 - Cream -- On a Stone Pillow -- Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova -- With the Beatles - Confession of a Shinagawa Monkey -- Carnaval -- The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection -- First Singular N2 - The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides ER -