How I saw the 100% girl one fine morning in April

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How I saw the 100% girl one fine morning in April is the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami . It was first published in Japanese in 1993 , and a German translation in 1996.

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How I saw the 100% girl one fine morning in April is a collection of nine short stories . Among the stories is the eponymous eponymous story.

How I saw the 100% girl one fine morning in April

One day in April the narrator sees a girl whom he thinks is "100%". But he is not sure how to address her and then philosophizes about whether there is such a thing as the 100% girl.

Lederhosen

A Japanese woman is supposed to bring her husband a pair of lederhosen from her vacation in Germany. Since the shop only sells lederhosen to people present, she brings a similar looking man into the shop. There she realizes that she actually hates her husband.

Family thing

The sister of the first-person narrator introduces her friend, a computer engineer, to the family. They eat steaks together and although the narrator doesn't like the sister's friend, he comes to terms with him.

The window

In a steak restaurant that has different variations of the Hamburg steak, but not a classic Hamburg steak, the narrator flirts with a waitress. In the end, it is forbidden to fry him a classic hamburger steak.

TV people

The TV people are little men who always put a television in the living room for the narrator. They also carry the television to work, even though it comes from a competing company. In the television program, the TV people build an airplane.

The silence

The narrator's school friend Osawa says that he never hit anyone in an argument because he is a boxer and that could be counted as an armed attack. The narrator blames himself for driving a schoolmate to suicide for beating him once.

The green monster

This story is written from the perspective of a woman whose husband is at work. Out of sheer boredom, monsters appear to her, which she has to kill, even though chopped off body parts keep growing back

The dancing dwarf

The narrator works in a factory that makes elephants. One day a dancing dwarf appears to him. He persuades the dwarf to adopt his body in order to advertise a girl.

The last lawn in the afternoon

As a student job, the narrator mows the lawn of a single woman. This reveals that her late husband was American and addicted to alcohol. The widow also consumes alcohol excessively, whereupon the narrator quits his job.

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“Unfortunately, some things weren't as successful as this, like the cover story, which ripples along, as its title suggests. Almost everything is punch-free, especially the best. An abyss lurks somewhere, into which one briefly looks before habit and everyday life again cover up what is going on down there, under and in us; and so it goes back to the "normal". In the best moments - you also have to go through others - the magic of a great narrator is revealed. "

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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  1. ↑ till: Monster stories - fiction . In: FAZ . February 4, 2008, p. 34 ( faz.net [accessed August 13, 2019]).