Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 3: Scheherezade; Sleep

＂Enchanting...intriguing [...] A wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone.＂ --The Wall Street Journal

Haruki Murakami’s novels, essays and stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into fifty languages. Now for the first time, his best-loved stories are available in manga form, in three independent volumes.

These adaptations have been hailed by Publishers Weekly as ＂a must-read for Murakami buffs and a quirky invitation into the writer’s perspective and preoccupations for newcomers,＂ while Book Riot says ＂Long-time fans are sure to appreciate this new approach to Murakami’s work, while newcomers will find it an evocative introduction.＂

With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, centering around Murakami’s signature themes of loss, remorse and confusion, the two stories in this volume are:

• Scheherazade: A man, Habara, is confined to his home, as though under house arrest. He is visited regularly by a woman, Scheherazade, who brings provisions then has sex with him. She tells him about a boy she was in love with in high school, and how she would break into his house. She starts re-enacting the break-ins, which further enhances their passion. At the end of the story, Habara anxiously awaits her next break-in and the continuing account of her youthful affair. ＂Tortured love affairs [...] are nothing new to Murakami’s vast store of plotlines.＂ --The New York Times


• Sleep: A housewife has not slept for many days, but her family doesn’t notice. She stays up all night reading Anna Karenina and sees her surroundings through new eyes. Her sleeplessness provides freedom from a monotonous life looking after her husband and son. ＂A brilliant story that uses the liminality of the night to evoke the unease of being a woman in a patriarchal society.＂ --The Guardian

*This volume is shrink-wrapped and recommended for readers ages 18+ due to mature themes and graphic content.*

Haruki Murakami’s first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize in 1979. He is the author of many novels including Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka on the Shore. He has published three collections of short stories: The Elephant Vanishes, After the Quake and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. The most recent of his many international literary honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera and V. S. Naipaul. Murakami’s work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

Jean-Christophe Deveney’s comic book adaptations have been published in Italy, Spain, England, USA, Japan and Argentina. He organizes international projects and comics exhibitions. He taught scriptwriting for comics and animation for fifteen years.

PMGL illustrates magazines and underground comix, and publishes comic strips, short stories and feature comics. He also teaches human morphology and anatomy to animators and videogame artists. On the side he collects 45rpm records from the 70s and deejays under the nom de plume Koffi Gnato.