Men without women
Rocky Murakami / Kinneret + Crown
In the seven stories in this great file, Rocky Murakami focuses on the lives of men who find themselves alone, without women, man-to-man in their own way. Disappearing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles - all woven together into mesmerizing stories that speak to us all, studded with touches of the ironic humor that characterizes his work.
Rocky Murakami, a Japanese writer and translator, was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His extensive work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and he has translated into Japanese important Western writers. Murakami has won numerous awards and honors, including the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Literature, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize.
221 pages, 96 NIS.
