Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels
essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores
of languages. Now for the first time in this three-volume series Murakami's best-loved
stories are available in manga form in English. With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy
centering around Murakami's signature themes of loss remorse and confusion. The three stories
in this volume are: The Second Bakery Attack : A newlywed couple lie in bed hungry. The man
tells his wife about when he and a friend robbed a bakery and stole bread to feed themselves
for two days. On hearing this story the woman suggests they try the same thing again. " [...]
exemplifies Murakami's sense of the fragility of the ordinary world." -- Kirkus Reviews Samsa
in Love: An extension of the tale of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis . The main
character wakes up to find himself transformed into someone named Samsa then falls in love
with a hunchback woman who comes to fix the lock on his door. " Samsa in Love is part of a
lineage going back to the original publication of The Metamorphosis in 1915 and extending up
to (and beyond?) the present day." -- Los Angeles Times Thailand : A middle-aged woman takes
a break from her job as a doctor to go on holiday in Thailand. She learns from a spirit doctor
that her sterile life and inability to forgive have created a rock in her gut which will be
all that remains of her after she is dead. "His characters are so persuasive and the
storytelling so spacious.... Murakami's crisp accomplished stories...have great immediacy." --
The Seattle Times > **Recommended for readers ages 16+ due to mature themes and graphic
content**
