“Slow Boat to China” is the first book of short prose by the Japanese classic of modern world literature Haruki Murakami. “It represents most of what can be called my world,” the author himself said about this book. Crazy stylistic fireworks, piercing tenderness, tragedy and humor of worldview, romantic surrealism of the future author of “The Chronicles of the Wind-Up Bird” and “After Dark” - for the first time in Russian.