Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

“Life is like a merry-go-round—spinning at a fixed speed around a fixed point. You don’t go anywhere, you can’t get off, and no one overtakes you, nor do you overtake anyone.”

In this thought-provoking collection, Haruki Murakami presents eight short stories that explore the quiet intensity of everyday existence. On the endless carousel of life, we race fiercely against imagined rivals, caught between reality and illusion.

While three of the eight stories have been officially published in English, the complete collection has not yet been officially published in English.