Men Without Women

First time in Russian! This is the first collection of stories in recent years, since “Tokyo Legends” was published in Japan (2005). Haruki Murakami has written several novels. And only in spring 2013 he created the story “Lover of Samza” (a prologue included in this book). After that, the author developed the mood and desire to write the collection “Men Without Women,” and the very title contains the motif and the key idea of all the novellas: the main characters are men—those from whom, for the most varied reasons, women have left; those who have lost the love of their entire life or never achieved it. The professor at Tokyo University, Mitsuyoshi Numano, wrote about the collection: “After reading, in your subconscious remains a blues-like longing from the impossibility for women and men, even those closest to each other, to understand each other’s souls completely. People of today, having lost faith in gods and in their own calling, have developed a so-called ‘loneliness organ,’ which helps them lie even to those they love with all their heart, and they simply can no longer rid themselves of this product of mental mutation.”