Author:Trevor Preston,Stephen Greif,Ann Beach,Susan Penhaligon,Joanna Monro,Sean Baker,Gethin Anthony,Sally Orrock,Christine Kavanagh
A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his life. 'Small Acts of Kindness' catches up with Charlie as his mentor's death shifts everything once more. In his late sixties and with his writing career all but dried up, Charlie starts to paint again. Invigorated, he spends his free time supporting his contemporaries who have found themselves alienated and impoverished by modern life. Soon it is not just his desire to paint that is revived... Starring Stephen Greif as Charlie, and also featuring Ann Beach, Susan Penhaligon, Joanna Monro, Sean Baker, Gethin Anthony, Sally Orrock and Christine Kavanagh amongst the cast.
Wonderfully easy to read and just as wonderfully difficult to make sense of...like the narrator, who slowly accepts the presence in his life of mystery, we slowly recognize the possibility of a new kind of world. Like him, we lean forward and topple headlong into magic
—— Washington PostIt begins as a detective novel, dips into a screwball comedy, and at its close becomes a tale of possession...A highly accomplished piece of craftsmanship
—— New YorkerMr. Murakami's style and imagination are closer to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver and John Irving
—— New York TimesA Wild Sheep Chase has the conventional hull of a thriller - a quest, a mystery, an extraordinary woman, and plenty of elegant duress - but its fantastic superstructure transforms it into something quite different...a science fiction fantasy, a romance, a metaphysical tease, or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas
—— IndependentIf you consider yourself an intelligent, sensitive common reader but wish to accommodate something a little removed from your experience, and probably your imagination, I dare you to turn your eyes towards Murakami and head off on a wild sheep chase.
—— Glasgow HeraldDiscover what a fine writer Murakami is with this engrossing examination of a male mid-life crisis... He enthrallingly teases out the risks, culminating in a headily sensual finale
—— Time OutA beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami's flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
—— Irish TimesA wise and beautiful book.
—— The New York Times Book ReviewA probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
—— The New York TimesBrilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami's deeply original fiction.
—— The Baltimore SunLovely, deceptively simple. . . . A novel of existential romance.
—— San Francisco ChronicleHis most deeply moving novel.
—— The Boston GlobeMesmerizing. . . . This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.
—— The Baltimore SunA fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.
—— The Philadelphia InquirerPortrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular . . . to the surprisingly poetic.
—— San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
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