TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Gabriel,Philip AU - Goossen,Ted TI - Men without women: stories SN - 9781911215370 (hbk.) : AV - PL856.U673 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Harvill Secker KW - Murakami, Haruki, KW - Short stories KW - eflch KW - General KW - ukslc KW - Fiction in Translation KW - Short Stories N1 - Translated from the Japanese N2 - 'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.' 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 humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic ER -