«Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.»
They were always inseparable. Red, Blue, White, Black, and colorless Tsukuru. In their second year at university, something happened. The four friends severed all ties with Tsukuru and wanted to see him no more. Since then, a wound has been bleeding in his soul, and White and Black periodically appear in erotic dreams, while only work brings him joy in life.
After 16 years, Tsukuru dares to face the truth. He will find his former friends and learn what really happened that fateful year.
«A Draw on the Carousel»
The heroine divorces her husband over the purchase of shorts. The woman meets a man from a painting she bought several years ago. The hero is overcome with nausea after receiving a call from an unknown person. It lasts for 40 days until the calls stop. A student rents an apartment across from his beloved's house and starts to follow her, gradually losing himself.
These stories want to be told.
«Slowly Rowing to China»
«Slowly Rowing to China» is Haruki Murakami's first collection of short prose. It was written just a year after the famous novel «A Wild Sheep Chase». On the pages of this book, another incarnation of «the sheep» will appear.
But first, the reader will meet a poor aunt who settles on the back of the narrator. Go to the zoo during a typhoon. Wear a funeral suit. Dig up a dog and pretend to be a poor private detective. Only after that will the sheep-professor appear before you.
This collection is full of strange encounters and coincidences. Soft music plays in the background, and the slowly rowing boat glides along a metaphoric path. Are you ready to follow it?