A new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami bring back author's dreamy vibe and magical realism SECTIONS A new collection of stories by Haruki Murakami bring back author's dreamy vibe and magical realismAP Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 04:26 PM IST Share Synopsis The best story in the collection, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, is 'Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova'. Agencies If you're not a fan of Murakami's dreamy vibe and magical realism, if you think that life is confounding and interesting enough without needing to add fairy dust, then this probably isn't the book for you. Related Haruki Murakami has a new collection of stories told in the first person by an unnamed older man obsessed with baseball, music, and the porous borders between memory, reality and dreams.