Haruki Murakami
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.
2) 1Q84
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Pub. Date
2011
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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...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
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From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore comes this rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. Settings range from Tokyo, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston, among young women
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In this propulsive novel, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table. As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged...
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Norwegian Wood" ist für den siebenunddreißigjährigen Toru Watanabe ein melancholischer Song der Erinnerung: an den Aufruhr der Gefühle in einer schmerzvollen und schicksalhaften Jugend, die er zu bewahren und zu verstehen versucht. "Naokos Lächeln" erzählt lebendig und leidenschaftlich von einer Liebe mit Komplikationen in den unruhigen sechziger Jahren: Toru, der einsame, ernste Student der Theaterwissenschaft, begeistert von Literatur, Musik...
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Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time!
Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami's best-loved short stories are available in graphic novel form in English. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 is the first of three volumes, which will present a total of 9 short stories from Murakami's bestselling...
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Tokyo, ferne Gegenwart: Zwischen Wirklichkeit und virtueller Realität. Datendiebstahl ist an der Tagesordnung: Einem genialen greisen Wissenschaftler ist es gelungen, bei einer Gruppe professioneller Datenfälscher eine Gehirnwäsche durchzuführen. Er entnimmt ihnen Informationen, die er in Gehirne von unwissenden Versuchspersonen einspeist. Der 35-jährige Held und Ich-Erzähler ist der Einzige, der die Prozedur überlebt. Fortan versucht er, die...
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1984. Aomame hat zwei verschieden große Ohren. Beim Rendezvous mit einem reichen Ölhändler zückt sie eine Nadel und ersticht ihn - ein Auftragsmord, um altes Unrecht zu sühnen. Tengo ist Hobby-Schriftsteller. Er soll einen Roman der exzentrischen 17-jährigen Fukaeri überarbeiten, damit sie einen Literaturpreis bekommt. Der Text ist äußerst originell, aber schlecht geschrieben - ein riskanter Auftrag. Aomame wundert sich, warum die Nachrichten...
9) After dark
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.
At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
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The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in Kafka On The Shore--the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply.
Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary,...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
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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 result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind...
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 result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
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"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"...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
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An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations...
16) Drive my car
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Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Follows a middle-aged Japanese director staging Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya while struggling with grief over the premature death of his wife.