The basis for the Academy-Award®-nominated major motion picture.In this short story fromHaruki Murakami’sbestselling collection,Men Without Women, a widowed actor hires a twenty-year-old woman to be his chauffeur. Despite her reserved nature, the actor finds comfort in her stable presence, & a friendship blossoms as they slowly reveal their pasts. Crafted with delicacy & precision,Drive My Caris a meditative exploration of the need for human connection & our innate desire to be understood — even when we least expect it.°°°HARUKI MURAKAMIwas born in Kyoto in 1949 & now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is theCino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, & Joyce Carol Oates.