Blind willow, sleeping woman (め く ら や な ぎ と 眠 る 女, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna) is a collection of stories by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami, composed of twenty-four independent stories that the writer has collected in 2006 under the name of his story « Blind willow, sleeping woman »from 1983/1995.
The stories mix reality with fiction and are inspired by insignificant, everyday objects or situations, to which the context is completely changed to develop a whole new scenario for them.
It contains a prologue by the author, where he makes a number of allusions to the creative processes between his stories and his novels. Stories included Prologue Quote
To put it in the simplest way possible, for me to write novels is a challenge; write stories, a pleasure. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing stories is more like planting a garden. Editions in Spanish
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