Birthday Girl

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Copyright © Haruki Murakami 2002

English translation copyright © Jay Rubin 2003, 2004

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First published by Harvill Secker in 2019

‘Birthday Girl’ originally appeared in English in Harper’s in 2003 and was first published by The Harvill Press in 2004 in the short story collection Birthday Stories, which was first published in Japanese in 2002 with the title Bāsudei sutōrīzu by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo.

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