Haruki Murakami
Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. He can be located on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/harukimuraka...Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife.Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (the first part being the title of a song by Nat King Cole).
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.
One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.
Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing.
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.
By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.
Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
Alternate cover edition here.
Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim.
Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.
After the Quake
Haruki Murakami
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじめる……。大地は裂けた。神は、いないのかもしれない。でも、おそらく、あの震災のずっと前から、ぼくたちは内なる廃墟を抱えていた――。深い闇の中に光を放つ6つの黙示録。
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami’s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be closest of all.
The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750536
With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure.
The Strange Library
Haruki Murakami
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination.
The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated in full color throughout, this small format, 96-page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.
Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami
Alternate cover edition here.
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
alternate cover can be found here
Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.
Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.
Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...
Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2)
Haruki Murakami
The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear in his apartment one morning, and disappear at the end of the book. Interspersed with the narrative are his memories of the Japanese student movement, and of his old girlfriend Naoko. The plot alternates between describing the life of narrator and that of his friend, The Rat.
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat Series, #3)
Haruki Murakami
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing find the sheep or face dire consequences.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami
'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?' — Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls.
The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Haruki Murakami
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and from The Beatles' Norwegian Wood to Franz Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage, the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with his friend, acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa, to talk, over a period of two years, about their shared interest. Transcribed from lengthy conversations about the nature of music and writing, here they discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to pop-up orchestras, and much more. Ultimately this book gives readers an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of the two maestros. It is essential reading for book and music lovers everywhere.
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami
Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels.
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.
That's who I am.'
Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers.
Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.
Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer’s “mental chest of drawers”; the necessity of loneliness, patience, and his daily running routine; the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more.
"What I want to say is that in a certain sense, while the novelist is creating a novel, he is simultaneously being created by the novel as well." — Haruki Murakami
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
Haruki Murakami
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.
Considered the world's most popular cult novelist (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.
In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts--including gems from the Springsteen on Broadway show in NYC, to the Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story Tony Takitani. Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami's multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.
First Person Singular: Stories
Haruki Murakami
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.
Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Haruki Murakami
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.
In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and arguably Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe—from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, Underground is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world’s most perceptive writers.
First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami
A mindbending new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami.
The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.
Tokio Blues: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe escucha una vieja canción de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de los años sesenta. Recuerda entonces con melancolía a la misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor amigo de la adolescencia. El suicidio de éste les distanció durante un año, hasta que se reencontraron e iniciaron una relación íntima. Sin embargo, la aparición de otra mujer en su vida lleva a Toru a experimentar el deslumbramiento y el desengaño allí donde todo debería cobrar sentido: el sexo, el amor y la muerte.
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. One man's rebellion against the traditional family birthday dinner of his childhood; the ghosts of a mis-spent youth; unusual guests entertained by an old woman whose son has forgotten her special day - this anthology captures a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy.
At skille sig af med en kat
Haruki Murakami
En sommerdag tager far og søn ud til en strand med familiens kat i en papkasse. De vil af grunde, sønnen ikke forstår, skille sig af med katten … der imidlertid vil det helt anderledes.
Med udgangspunkt i en enkelt barndomserindring skriver Murakami sig nærmere en forståelse af, hvem hans far var. Hvorfor han bad hver dag for de mange – såvel japanere som kinesere – som døde under krigen mellem Kina og Japan. Og hvorfor han kun talte meget sparsomt med sin søn om, hvad der egentlig hændte ham under Anden Verdenskrig.
I denne bog fortæller Haruki Murakami for første gang i selvbiografisk form om sin barndom og sit problematiske forhold til sin far. Det er en bog om krigens og livets tilfældighed – en meditation over død og erindring.
Illustreret af Yan Gao
IQ84
Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.
A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
Haruki Murakami
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan.
There’s not a whole lot to say story wise. A young man drinks a lot of beer and has strange conversations with a mysterious young lady he just met. So, classic Murakami.
The Second Bakery Attack
Haruki Murakami
Twee vrienden stappen de deur uit om in de dichtstbijzijnde bakkerij met geweld hun honger te stillen. Maar ze hebben buiten de bakker gerekend. Deze stelt een ongewone ruiltransactie voor.
De legendarische ‘broodjesroofverhalen’ van Haruki Murakami zijn een toonbeeld van surrealistische vertelkunst, doorspekt met de onnavolgbare humor van de bestsellerauteur. Nadat ‘Slaap’ als beeldverhaal verscheen heeft Murakami zelf illustratrice Kat Menschik om een vervolg verzocht. Het resultaat is De broodjesroofverhalen, in een meesterlijke vorm.
Birthday Girl
Haruki Murakami
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off.
One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress’s uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she’s asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant’s reclusive owner.
Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami’s 70th birthday.
Een Idea verschijnt (De moord op Commendatore, #1)
Haruki Murakami
In De moord op Commendatore van Haruki Murakami neemt een zesendertigjarige portretschilder zijn intrek in een oud atelier in de bergen ten zuidwesten van Tokio. Hij is onlangs gescheiden, na zes jaar huwelijk. Behalve door hartzeer wordt hij geplaagd door een ‘painter’s block’. Hij hoopt in het afgelegen atelier tot rust te komen en zijn inspiratie terug te vinden, maar het loopt anders. Een mysterieus schilderij lijkt tot leven te komen. Vanuit een heuvel in het bos achter het huis klinkt ’s nachts het geluid van een bel. Een flamboyante buurman biedt hulp, maar hij heeft zijn eigen agenda. Het leidt tot een zoektocht waarin de hoofdpersoon met zijn diepste angsten wordt geconfronteerd.
Metaforen verschuiven (De moord op Commendatore, #2)
Haruki Murakami
Een zesendertigjarige pas gescheiden portretschilder neemt zijn intrek in een oud atelier in de bergachtige omgeving ten zuidwesten van Tokio. Behalve door liefdesperikelen wordt hij geplaagd door een painter’s block, een onvermogen om te schilderen. Hij hoopt in het afgelegen atelier tot rust te komen, en zijn inspiratie terug te vinden, maar het zal anders gaan. Een mysterieus schilderij op de zolder van zijn verblijf lijkt tot leven te komen, vanuit een heuvel in het bos achter het huis klinkt ’s nachts het geluid van een bel. Een meisje verdwijnt, en de hoofdpersoon gaat haar zoeken – een zoektocht die hem afvoert naar de wereld der metaforen, waar hij met zijn diepste angsten wordt geconfronteerd.
1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)
Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers
Sleep
Haruki Murakami
Una donna attraversa la routine di giorni tutti uguali finché qualcosa d'inaspettato irrompe nella sua vita: smette di dormire. Quello che all'inizio sembra un dono diventa la porta d'accesso a una realtà segreta e inquietante.
1Q84 (1Q84 #1-3)
Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973
Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing . When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973 . Each book has its own stunning cover.
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The two remarkable short novels— Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 —that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.
These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase , of the trilogy of the Rat.
Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
A Shinagawa Monkey
Haruki Murakami
This is another of his curious modern folktales / fairy tales / magic realist stories. Murakami takes this phenomenon to another level, in which monkeys have become like leprechauns or elves, who steal personal items from folks and explain themselves when captured.
Desire: Vintage Minis
Haruki Murakami
You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.
Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Men Without Women.
Town of Cats
Haruki Murakami
Town of Cats is an excerpt from Muramaki's novel 1Q84 (2009), and it falls under the genre of social alienation.
Drive My Car
Haruki Murakami
Discover the inspiration for the Academy-Award®-winning major motion picture from Japan's master storyteller, Haruki Murakami.
In this short story from Murakami's bestselling 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, and a friendship blossoms as they slowly reveal their pasts. Crafted with delicacy and precision, Drive My Car is a meditative exploration of the need for human connection and our innate desire to be understood - even when we least expect it.
Desire
Haruki Murakami
You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.
Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman and Men Without Women.
1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
Haruki Murakami
Kafka en la orilla
Haruki Murakami
La muerte del comendador, Libro 2
Haruki Murakami
1Q84: Libros 1 y 2
Haruki Murakami
El fin del mundo y un despiadado país de las maravillas
Haruki Murakami
Sauce ciego, mujer dormida
Haruki Murakami
Sputnik, mi amor
Haruki Murakami
Al sur de la frontera, al oeste del sol
Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood: Tokyo Blues
Haruki Murakami
Después del terremoto
Haruki Murakami
Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color
Haruki Murakami
Hombres sin mujeres
Haruki Murakami
La biblioteca secreta
Haruki Murakami
Underground
Haruki Murakami
El elefante desaparece
Haruki Murakami
Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo
Haruki Murakami
1q84 - Boek drie: oktober-december
Haruki Murakami
1q84 - Boek twee: juli-september
Haruki Murakami
1q84 - Boek een: april-juni
Haruki Murakami
Sono
Haruki Murakami
1Q84: Book Three
Haruki Murakami
1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase / Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami
Il mestiere dello scrittore
Haruki Murakami
Kafka sulla spiaggia
Haruki Murakami
Uciderea Comandorului: (2) Metafora se schimbă
Haruki Murakami
Uciderea Comandorului: (1) O idee își face apariția
Haruki Murakami
Autoportretul scriitorului ca alergător de cursă lungă
Haruki Murakami
Afterdark
Haruki Murakami
Kafka am Strand
Haruki Murakami
Von Männern, die keine Frauen haben
Haruki Murakami
Wie ich eines schönen Morgens im April das 100%ige Mädchen sah
Haruki Murakami
Tony Takitani
Haruki Murakami
La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
Haruki Murakami
يوميات طائر الزنبرك: الكتاب الأول
Haruki Murakami
Primera persona del singular
Haruki Murakami
Pădurea norvegiană
Haruki Murakami
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
Haruki Murakami
A short story by Haruki Murakami
Tsukuru Tazaki Tanpa Warna dan Tahun Ziarahnya
Haruki Murakami
TSUKURU TAZAKI punya empat sahabat karib di SMA. Kebetulan, semua nama mereka menyiratkan warna. Dua laki-laki yang masing-masing dipanggil Akamatsu yang berarti ‘pinus merah’ dan Oumi yang berarti ‘laut biru’. Sementara nama para gadis berturut-turut Shirane, ‘akar putih’, dan Kurono, ‘ladang hitam’. Dan Tazaki satu-satunya nama belakang yang tidak memuat warna.
Suatu hari teman-teman Tsukuru mengabarkan bahwa mereka tidak mau bertemu lagi dengannya ataupun berbicara dengannya, selama-lamanya.
Sejak hari itu dia terapung-apung antara hidup dan mati, tidak mampu berteman dengan seorang pun. Tetapi, dia lalu bertemu Sara, yang menyadarkan bahwa kini sudah waktunya untuk mencari tahu apa yang sebenarnya terjadi bertahun-tahun lalu.
Dengarlah Nyanyian Angin
Haruki Murakami
Dengarlah Nyanyian Angin bercerita tentang anak-anak muda dalam arus perbenturan nilai-nilai tradisional dan modern di Jepang tahun 1960-1970-an. Dengan ringan, Haruki Murakami berhasil menggambarkan sosok kaum muda Jepang yang antikemapanan dan tak memilki bayangan ideal tentang masa depan. Novel pertama Murakami ini memenangi Gunzo Literary Award tahun 1979.
Abandonar um gato: O que falo quando falo do meu pai
Haruki Murakami
Homens Sem Mulheres
Haruki Murakami
O que têm em comum os Beatles, Hemingway, François Truffaut, Woody Allen, Tchékhov, um rapaz chamado Gregor Samsa, um médico doente de amor e o dono de um bar de jazz? Haruki Murakami, pois claro. São sete os contos que dão forma ao mais recente livro: Homens sem Mulheres. Sete homens desencantados e a contas com a solidão. Sete histórias de solidão, mágoa e luto que desafiam os lugares- -comuns sobre o amor. Sete maneiras de traduzir a mesma melancolia, enquanto lá fora «a chuva continua a cair, provocando no mundo inteiro um interminável calafrio». Mas não se deixem enganar: este livro está repleto de mulheres: desejadas, sonhadas, traídas, ouvidas, invocadas, incompreendidas, sobrevalorizadas, eternamente amadas e perdidas para sempre. Um dia, o leitor corre o risco de se transformar num homem sem mulheres. Depois não digam que não avisámos.
Galette au miel
Haruki Murakami
Le passage de la nuit
Haruki Murakami
Les Amants du Spoutnik
Haruki Murakami
K. est amoureux de Sumire, mais celle-ci n'a que deux passions : la littérature et Miu, une mystérieuse femme mariée. Au sein de ce triangle amoureux, chaque amant est un satellite autonome et triste, et gravite sur l'orbite de la solitude. Jusqu'au jour où Sumire disparaît... Les Amants du Spoutnik bascule alors dans une atmosphère proprement fantastique où l'extrême concision de Murakami cisèle, de façon toujours plus profonde, le mystère insondable de l'amour.
Chroniques de l'oiseau à ressort
Haruki Murakami
Un chat égaré, une inconnue jouant de ses charmes au téléphone, des événements anodins suffisent à faire basculer la vie d'un jeune chômeur, Toru Okada, dans un tourbillon d'aventures. L'espace limité de son quotidien devient le théâtre d'une quête sans cesse renouvelée où rêves, réminiscences et réalités se confondent. Aucune frontière, physique ou symbolique, ne résiste à l'effervescence des questionnements qui s'enchaînent au rythme de rencontres déroutantes, chacune porteuse d'un secret, d'une fragilité propre. Haruki Murakami (La Course au mouton sauvage, La Ballade de l'impossible) tente de nous donner à voir la part d'ombre des choses et des êtres. Replaçant la méditation bouddhique dans la violence contemporaine du japon ou d'ailleurs, il se propose d'explorer nos ténèbres intérieures. Sans se départir d'un humour où perce la détresse, il emmène le lecteur dans un monde fantastique où, toujours plus fuyante, la réalité n'en devient que plus envoûtante.
Ice man
Haruki Murakami
La muerte del comendador - Libros 1 y 2 (Estuche)
Haruki Murakami
The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
Men Without Women: Stories (Men Without Women)
Haruki Murakami
“Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers.” —Barack Obama
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.
La muerte del comendador, Libro 1
Haruki Murakami
En plena crisis de pareja, un retratista de cierto prestigio abandona Tokio en dirección al norte de Japón. Confuso, sumido en sus recuerdos, deambula por el país hasta que, finalmente, un amigo le ofrece instalarse en una pequeña casa aislada, rodeada de bosques, que pertenece a su padre, un pintor famoso.En suma, un lugar donde retirarse durante un tiempo. En esa casa de paredes vacías, tras oír extraños ruidos, el protagonista descubre en un desván lo que parece un cuadro, envuelto y con una etiqueta en la que se lee: «La muerte del comendador». Cuando se decida a desenvolverlo se abrirá ante él un extraño mundo donde la ópera Don Giovanni de Mozart, el encargo de un retrato, una tímida adolescente y, por supuesto, un comendador, sembrarán de incógnitas su vida, hasta hace poco anodina y rutinaria.Este primer volumen de la novela La muerte del comendador es un fascinante laberinto donde lo cotidiano se ve invadido de señales indescifrables, de preguntas cuya respuesta todavía está lejos de vislumbrarse. El lector, al igual que el protagonista, deberá permanecer muy atento.
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.
Wind/Pinball
Haruki Murakami
The first two short novels--never before widely available in the U.S.--by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly translated, in one volume, with a new introduction by the author.
Widely available in English for the first time ever, Wind/Pinball brings together the two first novels-- Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 --by the legendary Haruki Murakami. Written at his kitchen table in the hours before dawn, these remarkable short works--powerful, at times surreal, stories about two young men coming of age--launched the career of one of the most celebrated authors of our time. Bearing all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books, Wind/Pinball gives readers a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.
Elefanten som forsvant
Haruki Murakami
Fortellingene i Elefanten som forsvant utspiller seg som oftest i hverdagens velkjente miljøer, mot realistiske kulisser av villaforsteder, bakgater og kontorlandskap. Men det er en verden som slår sprekker, der det usannsynlige og hemmelighetsfulle lett kan bryte inn og forstyrre både fornuften og ro og orden.
En gammel elefant og mannen som passer den forsvinner sporløst, noe som også forrykker balansen i den betraktende fortellerens tilværelse. En mann oppdager at livet hans er i ferd med å invaderes av små tv-mennesker. Et ungt par føler seg nødt til å dra ut i det nattestille Tokyo for å rane et bakeri. Og hva kan skje, eller ikke skje, når man en vakker aprilmorgen treffer den hundre prosent perfekte jenta på gata?
Med humor og stor oppfinnsomhet skildrer Murakami fantasiene og drømmene som trives i skyggen av vaner og rutiner. Han har et skarpt blikk for samtidens mer absurde sider, men fortellingene preges også av et smittende vemod over tidens gang og over de kjærlighetstapene som følger med livet. Elefanten som forsvant viser oss en verden der grensen mellom virkelig og uvirkelig hele tiden forskyves – en verden som til forveksling likner vår egen.
Novellene i Elefanten som forsvant er skrevet i perioden 1980–1991, og er blant Murakamis mest kjente og viktigste fortellinger. Noen har vært en inspirasjonskilde til senere store romaner, og flere har vært filmatisert og dramatisert.
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami’s first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.
'If you’re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o’clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.That’s who I am.'
Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J’s Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers.
Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J’s Bar. This sends him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.
Após o Anoitecer
Haruki Murakami
Neste romance, Murakami costura uma série de encontros e desencontros pelas ruas de Tóquio, entre o anoitecer e os primeiros raios da manhã. O autor deixa sua marca registrada ao falar da solidão e das dificuldades das relações humanas, mesclando diversas referências ao pop, ao jazz e à vida contemporânea.
No centro da trama estão duas irmãs. Eri é uma top model que, como uma Bela Adormecida moderna, caiu em sono profundo e parece nunca mais acordar. Mari, a mais jovem, é uma menina reservada e solitária que deixou a casa dos pais para vagar sozinha pela madrugada. Mergulhada na leitura de um livro numa lanchonete da cidade, acaba se envolvendo em uma aventura. Primeiro, encontra um trompetista de jazz que jura conhecê-la. Depois, ajuda a socorrer uma prostituta chinesa brutalmente espancada e, ao lado das funcionárias do motel onde o crime ocorreu, tenta descobrir o culpado.
Essas pessoas da noite, perseguidas por segredos do passado e em busca de uma identidade, aos poucos se cruzam nesta narrativa vibrante de Murakami, em que o escritor mistura tempo e espaço, sonho e realidade, compaixão e amor, numa trama inventiva e extraordinária.
Com maestria, Murakami mescla a jornada das irmãs às de outros personagens inesquecíveis: Takahashi é um músico jovem que procura um sentido para a vida; Shirakawa, empregado numa empresa de tecnologia, vara as noites trabalhando e esconde uma segunda personalidade, brutal; Kaoru, gerente de um motel, tenta ajudar uma prostituta que foi espancada e, no processo, acaba se envolvendo com a máfia chinesa.
Enquanto os ponteiros do relógio avançam em tempo real madrugada adentro, as diferentes histórias narradas por Murakami se entrelaçam, se dividem e se fundem, num misterioso e belo romance sobre as complexas relações do amor.
Música, sólo música
Haruki Murakami
Todo el mundo sabe que a Haruki Murakami le apasiona tanto la música moderna y el jazz como la música clásica. Esta pasión no solo le llevó a regentar en su juventud un club de jazz, sino a impregnar de referencias y vivencias musicales la mayoría de sus novelas y obras. En esta ocasión, el escritor japonés más famoso del mundo comparte con sus lectores sus querencias, sus opiniones y, sobre todo, sus ansias de saber sobre un arte, el musical, que hermana a millones de seres humanos en todo el mundo. Para ello, a lo largo de dos años, Murakami y su amigo Seiji Ozawa, antiguo director de la Boston Symphony Orchestra, mantuvieron estas deliciosas conversaciones sobre conocidas piezas de Brahms y Beethoven, de Bartok y Mahler, sobre directores de orquesta como Leonard Bernstein y solistas excepcionales como Glenn Gould, sobre piezas de cámara y sobre ópera. Así, mientras escuchan discos y comentan distintas interpretaciones, el lector asiste a jugosas confidencias y curiosidades que le contagiarán el entusiasmo y el placer inacabable de disfrutar de la música con oídos nuevos.
Escucha la canción del viento y Pinball 1973 (El Rata, #1-2)
Haruki Murakami
Después de darle muchas vueltas, Haruki Murakami ha atendido por fin a las peticiones de sus lectores y ha accedido a que se traduzcan estas dos obras tempranas, sólo publicadas en japonés e inglés, al tiempo que ha añadido un Prólogo donde relata su génesis. Escucha la canción del viento (1979), ópera prima del autor, sigue las vicisitudes de un joven estudiante que, durante unas vacaciones en su ciudad natal, disfruta de la compañía de su mejor y original amigo, apodado «el Rata», una chica con cuatro dedos y el barman del Jay's Bar, personajes a los que se suma la figura de un escritor suicida (e inventado): Derek Heartfield, con quien se abre y se cierra la obra. Tres años después, en Pinball 1973 (1980), ese mismo joven vive en Tokio, con dos gemelas idénticas, mientras «el Rata» sigue viendo pasar la vida en el Jay's Bar, en una novela melancólica (con gatos, pozos y antiguas novias) y de atmósfera poética, que contiene las mejores escenas de pinball de la historia de la literatura.
La chica del cumpleaños
Haruki Murakami
Una joven camarera cumple veinte años. Pero no pasa ese día rodeada de amigos o celebrando su cumpleaños en familia: ella tiene que trabajar. Su jefe, el gerente del restaurante, le pide, además, que lleve la cena al dueño del local. Es algo nuevo. Y nunca ha visto al propietario.
Con ese misterioso encargo se inicia este delicioso relato que transcurre como en un sueño.
Soberbiamente ilustrado por la artista alemana Kat Menschik, el volumen se cierra con un posfacio de Haruki Murakami, titulado «Mi cumpleaños», en el que repasa los hitos de su generación, la que creció con el rock’and roll y la rebeldía del 68, y explica qué significa para él cumplir años.
Lederhosen
Haruki Murakami
'Mother dumped my father,’ a friend of my wife was saying one day, ‘all because of a pair of shorts.’
I had to ask. ‘A pair of shorts?’
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