Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thaila

<b>Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form!</b> <p/>Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this three-volume series, Murakami's best-loved stories are available in manga form in English. <p/>With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, centering around Murakami's signature themes of loss, remorse and confusion. The three stories in this volume are: <p/><ul><li><b><i>The Second Bakery Attack</i></b>: A newlywed couple lie in bed, hungry. The man tells his wife about when he and a friend robbed a bakery and stole bread to feed themselves for two days. On hearing this story, the woman suggests they try the same thing again. <br>" [...] exemplifies Murakami's sense of the fragility of the ordinary world." --<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></li><br><li><b><i>Samsa in Love: </i></b> An extension of the tale of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's <i>The Metamorphosis</i>. The main character wakes up to find himself transformed into someone named Samsa, then falls in love with a hunchback woman who comes to fix the lock on his door. <br>"<i>Samsa in Love</i> is part of a lineage, going back to the original publication of <i>The Metamorphosis</i> in 1915 and extending up to (and beyond?) the present day." --<b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b></li><br><li><b><i>Thailand</i></b>: A middle-aged woman takes a break from her job as a doctor to go on holida