Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman By Haruki Murakami (A Collection of Short Stories) Published Year: 2007(by Vintage) Page Count: 435 pages Medium Used: Paperback Genre: Mixed, Short Stories, 2024-read. Rating : 4/5 This book took me longer to read than expected .. perhaps because I was juggling it with other books as well. I wanted to read something by Murakami and went for this one because it only recently arrived in my mail box. Some of these stories .. which are magical, containing supernatural .. made me think and ponder a lot. For instance, a woman suddenly starts forgetting her name and how is it resolved without the help of western, omnipresent meds. A woman can't stop shoping for new clothes and what happens when her husband puts a stop to her unnatural addiction? And so on.. This book is a collection of selected short stories by Murakami. Some of them are small, some are big. Some have a twist .. in the form of an unexpected monkey or they are just explained away with a