THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2020 by Haruki Murakami
English-language translation copyright © 2021 by Haruki Murakami
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in Japan as Ichininsho Tansu by Bungei Shunju Ltd., Tokyo, in 2020. Copyright © 2020 by Haruki Murakami.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Photograph on this page by Ulana Switucha / Alamy
Some stories first appeared in the following publications: “Cream” first appeared in The New Yorker (January 2019), “On a Stone Pillow” first appeared in Freeman’s (October 2020), “Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova” first appeared in Granta (August 2019), “With the Beatles” first appeared in The New Yorker (February 2020), and “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey” first appeared in The New Yorker (June 2020).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Murakami, Haruki, [date] author. | Gabriel, Philip, [date] translator.
Title: The first person singular : stories / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
Other titles: Ichininsho Tansu. English
Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. | “This is a Borzoi book”
Identifiers: LCCN 2020028991 | ISBN 9780593318072 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593318089 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PL 856. U 673 A 2 2021 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020028991
Ebook ISBN 9780593318089
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover design by John Gall
Cover photograph © Jill Greenberg courtesy ClampArt Gallery, NewYork
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