About the book: 2010 / For the first time in Russian - a new collection of stories by the most famous master of modern Japanese literature, a kind of collection of mysterious urban legends. Here, the ghost of a surfer killed by a shark haunts the beaches of Hawaii, a prosperous father of a family mysteriously disappears between the twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth floors of a high-rise building, a kidney-shaped tumbleweed has his own agenda, and a monkey from the Shinagawa area hunts for other people's names..