Men Without Women
Gustav’s Review:
The only book I had read by Murakami leading up to this was ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running’, which is a fantastic memoir about long distance running. However, with him coming to The Louisiana festival this year, I decided to broaden my horizons, and this is the perfect place to start. His gentle writing and descriptions of idiosyncrasies within Japanese culture help immerse the reader in a world of lonely men. He also touches on some of the problems around men that help form the warped ideas of women and expectations of them that we increasingly see.
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 humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
