Despite her taciturn nature, the time they spend together in the car leads to the development of an unspoken trust between them. In the opening story, Drive My Car, an actor with glaucoma can no longer drive, and so hires a young woman as a driver. It’s a clean and crisp cover that accurately reflects Murakami’s writing style, but that also goes directly to the theme of the seven captivating stories in this collection, in which men discover, sometimes years after, the impact a woman has had on their life. A well-known admonition warns: ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’ Though generally a comment on the quality of the book based how its cover may look, if we take the meaning more broadly to cover also a book’s theme, then one could make an exception for the English hardcover edition of Haruki Murakami’s book of short stories, Men Without Women.Īs shown in the picture above, the cover image has a shadowed representation of the upper body of a man, with a puzzle piece missing from roughly where his heart would be that piece appears off to his side, as if leaving him behind.
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