Men Without Women: Stories

by Haruki Murakami

Philip Gabriel (Translator) and Ted Goossen (Translator)

'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.'

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.

Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

• ISBN10: 191121537X
• ISBN13: 9781911215370
• Publish Date: 9 May 2017 (first published 3 November 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Harvill Secker
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

[Jyc]

★★★☆ // murakami’s short story collection about men experiencing intense emotional and life-altering changes after a woman vanishes from their lives can both be a hit or miss. he’s a great writer and i do love him, but he still has a few ways to go before he can really write something profound and non-restrictive about women. my favourites were Drive My Car, An Independent Organ, Kino, and Samsa in Love. Samsa, in particular, was a welcome surprise because it’s unusually optimistic for a murakami story.

[lovelybookshelf]

There were a lot of cringy male gaze moments in this collection but ehhh, it's Murakami. I freakin' love his stories, regardless.