Blind Willow Sleeping Woman Author:Haruki Murakami 25 stories written over the course of twenty-five years, from 1980 to 2005. Throughout his career, Murakami has struck certain themes again and again and many of them are here: hopeless love, the alienation, the weird events that seem to grow out of the characters’ psychological holes. At times surreal, it runs the gamut of emotion and ima... more »gination.« less