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Haruki Murakami in graphic novel form in English for the first time! Haruki Murakami’s novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, Murakami’s best-loved short stories are available in graphic novel form in English. With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, and centering around Murakami’s characteristic themes of loss, remorse and confusion, the four stories in this volume are: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo: A few days after an earthquake, Katagiri discovers a giant frog in this home. The frog promises to save Tokyo from the next earthquake, but Katagiri must help him. Is this real, or is Katagiri dreaming? ‘[This story has] such an engaging mix of realism and fantasy that it takes a while for you to realize what a sad undertow the story has and how much it says about Katagiri’s solitary life, his feelings of powerlessness and his dread of another quake.’ –The New York Times. Where I’m Likely to Find It: A woman’s husband goes missing and she hires a detective to find him. As the detective picks up clues about the man’s whereabouts, he reflects on the meaning of his own life. ‘A searching Kafkaesque parable about disappearance, loss and coping.’ — Kirkus Reviews. Birthday Girl: A woman tells her friend the story of a surreal encounter she has on the day of her twentieth birthday with the owner of the restaurant where she works, who grants her a wish (that is never revealed to the reader). ‘A beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling.’ –Penguin. The Seventh Man: The story of a man scarred by the death of his childhood friend in a tsunami. ‘Although Murakami’s style and deadpan humour are wonderfully distinctive, his emotional territory is more familiar–remorse, unresolved confusion, sudden epiphanies–though heightened by the surreal. In ‘The Seventh Man,’ one of his saddest stories, the narrator recalls the wave that reared up during a freak storm and engulfed his childhood friend.’ — The Guardian. This new visual take on these classic Murakami short stories will be devoured by his fans and provide a new window onto his work for younger readers not yet familiar with it!
