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Blind willow, sleeping woman 25 stories

Translated by Philip Gabriel, Jay Rubin

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notes: Short stories, including: Blind willow, sleeping woman, Birthday girl, New York mining disaster, Aeroplane, or, How he talked to himself as if reciting poetry, The mirror, A folklore for my generation : a pre-history of late-stage capitalism, Hunting knife, A perfect day for kangaroos, Dabchick, Man-eating cats, A “poor aunt” story, Nausea 1979, The seventh man, The year of spaghetti, Tony Takitani, The rise and fall of Sharpie cakes, The ice man, Crabs, Firefly, Chance traveller, Hanalei Bay, Where I’m likely to find it, The kidney-shaped stone that moves every day, A Shinagawa monkey. Winner of Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2006
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781400044610
OCLC number: 732778616
publisher: Knopf, 2006; Vintage, 2007
publication place: New York; New York
english publication date: 2006
document type: Book
description: 333 p. ; 25 cm.