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 hadn't counted on the baker. He accompanies the croissant ballet with Wagnerian sounds and proposes an unusual barter. This calls for a second bakery heist. Murakami's legendary bakery heists are a prime example of surrealist-existentialist storytelling, where the bestselling author lets his unique humor run wild. After Murakami's story 'Sleep' was published worldwide with illustrations by Kat Menschik, Murakami met his illustrator in Berlin and expressed his desire for her to illustrate more of his stories. The result is 'The Bakery Heists.'.