<p>You¿ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you¿re destined for ¿ what do you do? In Murakami¿s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.<br><br>Selected from Haruki¿s Murakami¿s short story collections <i>The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman</i>, <i>Men Without Women</i><br><br><b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b><br><br>A series of short books by the world¿s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human<br><br> Also in the Vintage Minis series:<br><i>Love </i>by Jeanette Winterson<br><i>Psychedelics </i>by Aldous Huxley<br><i>Eating </i>by Nigella Lawson<br><i>Summer </i>by Laurie Lee</p>