Book Club for Dumplings
March 30th, 2007 by dd
The Dumpling supports a well rounded lifestyle. Work Hard, Play Hard… Sound Mind, Sound Body, yadda yadda yadda. So in addition to US Weekly, Hello!, Apple Daily (HK Newspaper), and DailyDumpling.com, of course, you should include something without any pictures in it that might actually be intellectually stimulating. To that end, DD is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging Oprah for Book Club dominance. Oh yeah, it’s on, Big O!…
DaDump is recommending anything and everything written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. His most recent collection of short stories recently won the Kiriyama Prize, an award dedicated “to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region.”
DaDump was serendipitously introduced to him by Int’l Gum Girl, a gamine with big eyes, an attitude, and a penchant for randomness… but I digress. Just know that Murakami’s stories can be as surreal and random as yours truly.
So pick up a copy of anything Murakami (Norwegian Wood is a good starter novel), impress your friends, and thank me later. You can read more about his most recent prize after the jump!
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