“A Slow Boat to China” is the first book of short prose by modern world literature classic Haruki Murakami. “It contains most of what you could call my world,” the author himself said about this book. A wild stylistic fireworks display, piercing tenderness, the tragedy and humor of the author’s worldview—romantic surrealism from the future creator of “The Chronicles of the Mechanical Bird” and “After the Quake.”