Birthday Girl Haruki Murakami Review. On the surface, birthday girl tells the simple story of a waitress in tokyo who has to work on her. Like other work by murakami, birthday girl is strange and a bit surreal at times.
Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Birthday girl opens with an unnamed. They are talking about their 20th birthdays, and she recalls the circumstances surrounding hers.
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Birthday girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate murakami's 70th birthday. ‘the birthday girl’ is one of the best short stories i’ve ever read. I loved it when i first read this story, and to tell the truth, a few years had gone past and it has grown on me ever since. The unnamed protagonist who had to work on her birthday gets an unusual birthday gift from the restaurant owner.