The women in his stories are enigmatic - they perplex the narrator, and through the narrator’s perplexment, Murakami guides the story to some greater truth about the nature of loneliness, nostalgia or intimacy. Murakami seems to treat his characters as nothing more than symbols. True to its title, these short stories are all narrated in first person singular and, more often than not, by an unnamed, middle-aged man grappling with loneliness. “First Person Singular” is a collection of eight short stories. But, upon reading, I ultimately found myself disappointed. Before its release, I anticipated with eagerness Haruki Murakami’s new short story collection “First Person Singular” - published in April this year and translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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