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"Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール, Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002. After reading "Timothy's Birthday" by William Trevor and "The Moor" by Russell Banks, Murakami felt haunted and decided to collect more birthday-themed stories for an ...
- Japan
- 2002
- バースデイ・ガール
- 2003
Haruki Murakami's short story "Birthday Girl", available to read online, is about a girl working part-time as a waiter who gets to make a special wish on her twentieth birthday. In the frame story, she is telling an unnamed first-person narrator about the events of her twentieth birthday.
“Happy birthday,” he said. “May you live a rich and fruitful life, and may there be nothing to cast dark shadows on it.” They clinked glasses. May there be nothing to cast dark shadows on it: she silently repeated his remark to herself. Why had he chosen such unusual words for her birthday wish?
7 de dez. de 2002 · Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami’s 70th birthday. Genres Short Stories Fiction Japan Magical Realism Japanese Literature Fantasy Contemporary
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Complete summary of Haruki Murakami's Birthday Girl. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Birthday Girl.
Summary. A girl is working at an upscale Italian restaurant waiting tables. It is her twentieth birthday. Business is slow due to the rainy autumn weather. The manager falls ill and goes to the hospital. He instructs the girl to bring the owner of the restaurant. Meal at 8 pm. He lives in the same building on the sixth floor.
24 de out. de 2021 · 'Birthday Girl' by Haruki Murakami - YouTube. Mariana Casale Bibliotherapy. 440 subscribers. 9. 535 views 1 year ago. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin from BIRTHDAY STORIES,...
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