haruki murakami - sleep | my lost words

This is a short story by one of my favourite authors, Haruki Murakami. I hunted it down to share it with my students, and in doing so had to...

This is a short story by one of my favourite authors, Haruki Murakami. I hunted it down to share it with my students, and in doing so had to spend a good deal of time editing down the previous transciber's mistakes. I'm posting it here to share it in its more true (to the translation) form. "Sleep" is found in the collection "The Elephant Vanishes". If you're looking for some more stunning shorts, check out Allende's "The Stories of Eva Luna" and Borges' "Labyrinths". For other posts on literature, click here. SLEEP by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin This is my seventeenth…

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