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Desire
  • Published: 8 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473548473
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Desire

Vintage Minis

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Paperback
29 May 2017
EBook
8 June 2017
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Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between

You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.

Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women
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A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Love by Jeanette Winterson
Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley
Eating by Nigella Lawson
Summer by Laurie Lee
  • Published: 8 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473548473
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
Categories:

Other books in the series
Psychedelics
Aldous Huxley
Motherhood
Helen Simpson
Summer
Laurie Lee
Work
Joseph Heller
Jealousy
Marcel Proust
Fatherhood
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Death
Julian Barnes
Depression
William Styron
Calm
Tim Parks
Babies
Anne Enright
Sisters
Louisa May Alcott
Eating
Nigella Lawson
Drinking
John Cheever
Language
Xiaolu Guo
Liberty
Virginia Woolf
Home
Salman Rushdie
Race
Toni Morrison
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Swimming
Roger Deakin
Freedom
Margaret Atwood
Marriage
Jane Austen
Friendship
Rose Tremain
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis
War
Sebastian Faulks
Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Rave
Irvine Welsh
Money
Yuval Noah Harari
Injustice
Richard Wright
Ghosts
M. R. James

About the author

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
portrait photo of Haruki Murakami

Also by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood
Kafka on the Shore
Birthday Girl
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
After Dark
Sputnik Sweetheart
See all

Praise for Desire

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration

Independent on Sunday

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

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