"First Person Singular" contains 8 short stories that reproduce the Murakami-style fantasy youth story

At the end of 2021, the "First Person Singular" planned and released by Motie Books Wenzhi Studio officially met with readers. This book is a new collection of short stories by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, a return to Haruki Murakami 6 years after the publication of the novel collection "Men Without Women" and 3 years after the publication of the novel "Assassination of the Knight Commander", and its Japanese version was launched in 2020. After the Chinese edition of "First Person Singular" was released, it received positive feedback from readers: "In the era of the epidemic, it must be Murakami's books, and reading Murakami's novels can make people heal." At the same time, this book was selected as the seventh place in the "2021 Foreign Literature (Novel) List" of Douban's 2021 annual book list, becoming a popular must-read list for literary and artistic youth. Previously, Motetsu Books imported a number of high-quality foreign literature rights, including Haruki Murakami's "Abandoned Cat", Keigo Higashino's "The Witch of Laplace", and Kakuda Mitsuyo's "Home on the Slope" and many other best-selling literary works.

"First Person Singular" contains 8 stories that reproduce the Murakami-style fantasy youth story

In 1979, Haruki Murakami won the Group Portrait Newcomer Literature Award for his debut work "And Listen to the Wind", thus entering the literary world, and then successively launched the world-famous "Norwegian Forest", "1Q84", which is known as "a milestone in Japanese literature in the new millennium", "Assassination of the Knight Commander" and "Abandoned Cat" and other works on war reflections, covering long stories, short stories, documentary literature, essays and other genres, and won the Tanizaki Junichiro Award, the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, the Kafka Award, The Jerusalem Literature Prize and many other awards around the world are one of the favorite Japanese literary writers among Chinese readers.

Haruki Murakami's new book, First-Person Singular, includes eight wonderful short stories with different perspectives, including "On the Stone Pillow", "Cream", "Charlie Parker playing Posanova", "With the Beatles", "Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection", "Carnival Carnaval", "Shinagawa Monkey Confession", "First-Person Singular", of which "First Person Singular" is an unpublished new work.

The stories included in this book are all told from the first-person perspective of "I", focusing on the theme of memory, falling into some small things in life without reason, and subtly portraying the loneliness, helplessness and bitterness of modern life that urban people have nowhere to solve. This novel is a deep reflection on love and death, and the genre is a mixture of short songs, prose, music and novels, which is exactly the familiar Murakami style.

A number of best-selling works have been introduced successively, and the iron has been deeply cultivated in foreign literary copyrights

In 2021, Motetsu has successively launched a number of popular literary classics such as Haruki Murakami's "Abandoned Cat", Keigo Higashino's "The Witch of Laplace", and Mitsuyo Kakuda's "Home on the Slope". Among them, "Abandoned Cat" is the first introduction of Haruki Murakami's new work, fully recalling his father, family and history, with the sense of accepting history and reflecting on the responsibility of war; "The Witch of Laplace" is a suspenseful mystery novel written by the well-known Japanese writer Keigo Higashino, which has surreal significance of connecting the future; "Home on the Slope" exposes the dilemma of widowhood through a case and explores the truth of women's survival. After the publication of these books, these books have received widespread attention and gained a good reputation from readers. Among them, "First Person Singular" was selected as the seventh place in the "Foreign Literature (Novel Category)" of the Douban 2021 Annual Book List, "Abandoned Cat" ranked fourth in the Douban 2021 Annual Reading List "Foreign Literature (Non-Fiction)", "Home on the Slope" was selected as the eighth place in the Douban Reading List "Foreign Literature (Novel Category)" in 2020, and Haruki Murakami became the first most concerned author of Douban in 2021.

In addition to classic masterpieces, Motie has also planned and released a number of original books of foreign film and television works, including the original novel "Hello, World" of the Japanese hit animation "Hello World", and the original manga "The New Life of Kai" of Douban's annual high-scoring Japanese drama NO.1 "Calm Leisure". Through deep cultivation in the field of foreign literature, Motie has introduced a number of high-quality copyright works, providing a channel for Exchanges between Chinese and foreign literature, and also opening a window for domestic literature lovers to understand foreign literature and film and television works.

Motie is deeply rooted in the book publishing industry, and has established cooperative relations with many outstanding authors at home and abroad, and is committed to presenting high-quality content to the majority of readers, providing "good copyright, good content, good products" and enriching the spiritual life of readers.

Source: Orient Net