About the Book: Birthday Girl
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always
worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular
Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitresss
uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when shes asked
to deliver dinner to the restaurants reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a
beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to
celebrate Murakamis 70th birthday....
About the Author: Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One
April day, the impulse to write