Die Bäckereiüberfälle

We were hungry, that much was certain. However, it wasn't an ordinary hunger; it felt as if we had swallowed a cosmic vacuum. Two friends set off armed with knives to satisfy their hunger at the nearest bakery. But they had not counted on the baker. He accompanies the croissant ballet with Wagner's music and proposes an unusual trade. This calls for a second bakery heist.

Murakami's legendary bakery heists are a prime example of surrealist-existentialist narrative art, where the world-renowned author unleashes his unique humor. After Murakami's story "Sleep" was published worldwide with illustrations by Kat Menschik, he met his illustrator in Berlin and expressed his desire for her to illustrate more of his stories. The result is "The Bakery Heists" as you've never seen them before.