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Men Without Women: A collection of short stories about men who have lost women in their lives
Published in Japanese in 2014 as 女のいない男たち (Onna no inai otokotachi)
Translated into English by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen in 2017.
“Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it’ll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers.” —Barack Obama
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.
Four of these stories appeared previously in the New Yorker Magazine.
The title Men without Women shares the moniker of Ernest Hemingway’s second short story collection.
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