First Person Singular Summary
Haruki Murakami

First Person Singular Overview

First Person Singular is a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami, featuring the author's trademark use of surrealism. Each story's narrator reflects on memories from an earlier time in their life and grapples with these meaning of these memories. One narrator recalls his first girlfriend, another remembers a strange encounter with an old man in a park, and another recalls a conversation with a talking monkey. In addition to memory, the stories address themes related to music, loneliness, and mystery.