Yesterday
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A quietly haunting story of friendship and youth, Haruki Murakami’s short story Yesterday, published in The New Yorker, follows two university students whose paths cross briefly before life pulls them in different directions. Through offbeat moments and gentle nostalgia, it explores identity, memory, and growing up.
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32 released booksHaruki Murakami Short Stories
Haruki Murakami Short Stories is a 32-book series with 32 released primary works first released in 1983 with contributions by Haruki Murakami.
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“If we'd both gone straight into college, our lives would've been all warm and fuzzy, but I blew the entrance exam big time, and here we are. I'm not sure why, exactly, but things kept on getting worse. I'm not blaming anyone for that—it's all my fault.”
I listened to him in silence.
“So I kinda split myself in two,” Kitaru said. He pulled his hands apart.
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kitaru and tanimura are like two sides of the same coin or just plain twins. they lived lives opposite of each other and saw what they're lives could've been in if they switched.
