Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally available in graphic novel form! With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, centering around Murakami's signature themes of loss, remorse and confusion, the two stories in this volume are:
- Scheherezade: A man named Habara is confined to his house and is visited by a nurse, Scheherezade, who brings him provisions and has sex with him. She tells Habara the story of a boy she had a crush on when she was young, whose house she repeatedly broke into. She tells him the story over several visits, and the story ends before Scheherezade finishes. Habara worries he may never see Scheherezade again.
"A powerful, eccentric tale" --The Guardian - Sleep: recounts the life of a housewife with a regimented existence. But at night, she has her own life, as though she enters an extra-dimensional space. In this world she examines her own life and family and ponders the meaning of death.
"[Murakami's stories] take place in parallel worlds, not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces." --The New York Times
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*Recommended for readers ages 16+ due to mature themes and graphic content*Haruki Murakami's first novel,
Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize in 1979. He is the author of many novels including
Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart and
Kafka on the Shore. He has published three collections of short stories:
The Elephant Vanishes, After the Quake and
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. The most recent of his many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami's work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
Jean-Christophe Deveney's comic book adaptations have been published in Italy, Spain, England, USA, Japan and Argentina. He organizes international projects and comics exhibitions. He taught scriptwriting for comics and animation for fifteen years.
PMGL illustrates magazines and underground comix, and publishes comic strips, short stories and feature comics. He also teaches human morphology and anatomy to animators and videogame artists. On the side he collects 45rpm records from the 70s and deejays under the nom de plume Koffi Gnato.