Birthday Girl Haruki Murakami Review. This is a short story about a waitress who has to serve dinner to the reclusive owner of the restaurant where she works and was written to celebrate murakami’s 70th birthday. On her birthday eve, a series of events led her back to her work place, waiting tables and filling in for her sick manager.

His abstract way of making banal events like someone's evening work shift on their 20th birthday intriguing, his impecable narrative and his undeniable sense for details result in a genius short story about a girl who made one single birthday wish. The unnamed protagonist who had to work on her birthday gets an unusual birthday gift from the restaurant owner. Birthday girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate murakami’s 70th birthday.

Birthday girl by haruki murakami is a short, sweet, intriguing and open ended story of a young girl celebrating her 20th birthday.

Birthday girl by haruki murakami is a short, sweet, intriguing and open ended story of a young girl celebrating her 20th birthday. I just finished the birthday girl short story. Birthday girl adjust share by haruki murakami, translated by jay rubin, s he waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. Haruki murakami’s short story birthday girl doesn’t give readers a lot of time to think about what they’re being told, which only ensures that they’ll spend plenty of time thinking about.