Modern fiction

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal for lunch and buys the same two bottles of vodka every weekend. Nothing is missing from her life... Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleano...

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all...

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks-waking...