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You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.

Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women

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Desire: Vintage Minis

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 8 June 2017
      ISBN-13 9781784872632
      978-1784872632
      ISBN-10 1784872636
      Also in:
      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction Books by Haruki Murakami

      Description

      You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.

      Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women

      VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

      A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

      Also in the Vintage Minis series:
      Love by Jeanette Winterson
      Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley
      Eating by Nigella Lawson
      Summer by Laurie Lee

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