Author: murakami, haruki (Keywords)

'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 Kafka on the Shore, Murakami continues with his remarkable combination of profound insight into humankind with a totally credible touch of the fantastical – a unique tour de force. The teenager Kafka Tamura goes on the run and holes up in a strange library in a small country town. Concurrently...

At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odyssey where he shall encounter some very strange characters indeed.

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling 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 ...

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling 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 ...

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 strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To c...

The much-anticipated 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 s...

The much-anticipated 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 s...

'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.' Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themsel...