Flinging wide his closet to reveal an extensive and eclectic collection of t-shirts, the great Haruki Murakami provides insightful, witty and typically quirky commentary on one of his most intriguing obsessions.
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.
Haruki Murakami's books 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 found in bookshops, charity shops and record stores - from those featuring whisky, animals, cars and superheroes, to souvenirs of marathons and a 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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787303195
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 457 g
Dimensions: 180 x 146 x 22 mm
Fascinating...part ode, part exhibit that reads with restrained affection for his accidental accumulations....these tees excavate an intimate history. The choices we make about what we find and keep point to our interior worlds...Murakami's understated love letters to his tees also convey how we give life to our things and vice versa. - Atlantic
It's safe to say there is no one like Murakami - Literary Review
Murakami is one of the best writers around - Time Out, on Norwegian Wood
Everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility - Guardian, on Norwegian Wood
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original - The Times, on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Undeniably a somewhat eccentric book. But it's also a very likeable one... The overall effect is not unlike sharing a conversation with a genial bloke in a bar - Reader's Digest
One of the most influential novelists of his generation. - Observer
An incredibly readable and charming tour through Murakami's life through the T-shirts he has collected along the way... [the reader] feels a personal connection with him, as if we are reading his secret diary - Adam Davidson, Northern Echo
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