We typically get some kind of background about the characters, but there are also many things about them that are merely hinted at.
With such short stories, you begin to feel like you know a decent amount about these characters, even though the author is pretty ambiguous when writing about them. What Murakami is a master of, is creating subtext. Each story is completely disconnected from the last, with the only reoccurring theme being their relationships (or friendships) with women. Some of these men are widowed, married, divorced, or single. In Men Without Women: Stories, Japanese author Haruki Murakami highlights different men with different kinds of relationships with women.
I happen to be a single man at the time of reading, with a few long relationships behind me, and for that reason, reading through these short stories resonates. Tears falling on the dry road as you check the pressure of your tires" (from Men Without Women).Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami has had what I like to call a satisfyingly depressive effect on me after reading it. Waiting for someone you don't know somewhere between knowledge and ignorance. The bottom of the sea, with the ammonites and coelacanths. The far-off, weary lament of the sailors. (A billion years should count as forever). Fourteen is stolen away from you forever. "Only Men Without Women can comprehend how painful, how heartbreaking, it is to become one. Translated from the Japanese by Phillip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. Signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd on the title page and both the front panel and rear flap of the dust jacket. $275.00 Item Number: 123764įirst edition of this collection of seven tales about men who have lost women by internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami.
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