Langham Island Afternoon -- Haruki Murakami

Author: (Japanese) Murakami Haruki, translated by Lin Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Have you read the two illustrated humorous short stories, Night in the City of the Spider Monkey and Comedy of the Elephant Factory? Did the text and illustrations in those books bring you much joy and make you unable to put them down? This time, the illustrations are still the same illustrations, the artist is still the same artist, the short stories have been replaced by little essays, but the humorous style remains unchanged. Moreover—Murakami has made a joke about himself. Murakami, who writes novels so wildly imaginative, has so many incredible stories about himself: he loves to watch high school girls going to school from the hotel window; he always puts toothpaste on his comb to brush his teeth; he loves to draw maps; he prefers collecting men's underwear; when he breaks a ten-thousand-yuan bill to pay for small change, he always buys a tube of shaving cream; when he just got married and was too poor to have a clock, he had to go to a cigarette shop 500 meters away to check the time.