Work

Birthday Girl

Original title: バースデイ・ガール

村上春樹 · 2002short story

Genre
- literary & general
Theme
- identity
Place
- east asia
Time
- contemporary
Tone
- reflective
Audience
- adult
Form
- first person

Also present

Tonemysterious

More like this

"Birthday Girl" is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002. After reading "Timothy's Birthday" by William Trevor and "The Moor" by Russell Banks, Murakami felt haunted and decided to collect more birthday-themed stories for an anthology. Murakami was putting together Birthday Stories, his anthology of short stories on the theme of birthdays, and wrote "Birthday Girl" especially for it.

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Placement

contained in Blind Willow, Sleeping Womancollection