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"Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール, Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002. Murakami was putting together Birthday Stories (2002 in Japanese, 2004 in English), his anthology of short stories on the theme of birthdays, and wrote this story especially for it. A translation was also published in the July 2003 issue of Harper's Magazine, and collected into Murakami's own compilation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006 in English, 2009 in Japanese).
Plot summary
A girl who works as a waitress gets her birthday wish granted on her twentieth birthday – a wish that takes the rest of her life to realize.
References
Birthday Girl (short story) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA