The Kangaroo Composer, the 100% Girl, the Vampire in the Taxi, the Sheep Man, the Tongara Crows, the Girl from Ipanema, the Toadstool Bird, the seals who cannot live without business cards... All of them and many others are the heroes of the classic storybook Haruki Murakami's A Good Day for a Kangaroo (1986). The stories of the world's most popular Japanese writer are tender, deep, surreal, ghostly and mysterious, just like his novels. Prose of high standard.