First Person Singular: Stories.

MURAKAMI, Haruki.

Item Number: 125677

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

First edition of this collection of stories by the award-winning author. Boldly signed and stamped by Haruki Murakami. Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, below Murakami’s signature and on the jacket rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

The eight stories in this book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it" (The Wall Street Journal).