"Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories... Murakami has a marvellous understanding of youth and age - and the failings of each" -- Kate Kellaway Observer "Murakami writes of complex things with his usual beguiling simplicity... Strangely invigorating to read... It is Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best" -- Arifa Akbar Financial Times "Calculatedly provocative..., the stories offer sweet-sour meditations on human solitude and a yearning to connect... Murakami, always inventive, is one of the finest popular writers at work today" -- Ian Thomson Evening Standard "Written with all the cats, spaghetti, humor, and gentle surrealism we might expect ... Men Without Women is a funny, lovely, unmistakably Murakami collection of seven stories about the lives of people trying to find their place in the world and reckoning with their pasts" Buzzfeed "Elegant... Vintage Murakami... A glimpse into the strange worlds people invent by the always inventive Murakami" Kirkus "Self-schooled and uncontaminated by writerly edicts, the 68-year-old presents subjects directly on a platter before the reader... but stirs up all kinds of themes and truths in the allegorical mud through his gentle, almost conversational style" -- Hilary A White Irish Independent "One of the finest pieces of short-form writing I have enjoyed in many years... If the familiar way of Haruki Murakami are an enthusiasm, there is plenty here to divert the aficionado, but he also takes a turn into riskier territory that could well coax new readers into his distinctive world" -- Keith Bruce Herald "A man who starves to death for love, a woman who claims she used to be a lamprey eel, a mysterious whiskey drinker who scares away gangsters - it is the secondary characters who truly come alive in these tales. Peppered with strange women and passive men, unexpected suicides and cats, these vignettes will leave readers questioning, and linger in the mind" -- India Stoughton

Haruki Murakami is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and The Strange Library. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize.