Haruki Murakami
Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami became a full-time writer following the publication of his first novel in 1979. Later, he was truly thrown into the limelight with the publication of Norwegian Wood, which to date has sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone.
He is now Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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Once more bending fictional forms to his will, Murakami delivers a hypnotic collection of short stories ranging from jazz to baseball to intricately crafted dreamscapes, all narrated in the first person.
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- 08/11/2022
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The celebrated author of Norwegian Wood, 1Q84 and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running presents his musings on the peculiar profession of the novelist, discussing his own creative process as well as the role of novelists in society in characteristically luminous prose.
Novels
Short Story Collections and Novellas
Non Fiction
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