Foi qui se questionne, désir déçu, homosexualité qui ne peut se dire, âpretés de l’exil… Dans ces deux nouvelles, l’auteure d’Americanah tisse magistralement les trajectoires de personnages pour lesquels 'la terre des origines' est lointaine et que secouent d’intimes déchirements. "Le jour où un avion s’écrasa au Nigeria, le même jour où la première dame nigériane mourut, on frappa fort à la porte d’Ukamaka à Princeton. Les coups la surprirent car personne ne se présentait jamais à sa porte sans prévenir – on était en Amérique, après tout…"

„Je to už sedmnáct dní, co nemůžu spát,“ tak začíná povídka Harukiho Murakamiho, jejíž protagonistkou je zdánlivě obyčejná žena v domácnosti. Vlivem různých nečekaných okolností připomíná její noční život výlet do mimosmyslového prostoru. Ve světě, který je naprosto odlišný od našeho, prozkoumává svou rodinu, sama sebe, i význam života a smrti. Ilustrační doprovod ke knize vytvořila známá německá grafička Kat Menschik.

Taking self-love to a whole new dimension… August Blackthorne: Pitifully broke? Check. Fresh from a messy breakup? Check. The apparent object of some weirdo stalker’s affection? Unfortunately, also check. But everything changes when I finally get the chance to confront the guy who’s been terrorising me, only to discover that he’s actually… me. From a parallel universe. A smarter, more confident, sexy quantum physicist version of me. And for some reason, he wants my help. You’d think a super genius like him could find a better way to say hi, wouldn’t you? August Blackthorne (the other one): This was supposed to be simple: find the version of me in this reality, put our two genius brains together, and fix the problem I’ve created. Only this August isn’t a quantum physicist like I am. He’s a body-building, music-loving, karate-teaching absolute sweetheart. And I’m falling hard for him. The kind of hard that could destroy the universe. Because unless we can find a way to undo this mess, his whole existence will be torn apart, atom by atom, him included. But when he finds out who I really am, and what I’ve done, I know he’ll never want to see me again. How am I supposed to save the universe when doing it will destroy the one person I truly care about? Doppelbänger is the mind-bending, world-ending, utterly outrageous, action-packed, spicy sci-fi MM rom-com of your most warped daydreams. The ultimate story of self-love, weird science, and romance that defies the barriers of time and space, HEA guaranteed.