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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

An exploration of a writer’s life from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Novelist as a Vocation

a deluxe gift edition of Murakami’s masterful tale of unrequited love

Sputnik Sweetheart

the surreal, breakout detective novel, now in a deluxe gift edition

A Wild Sheep Chase

Murakami’s atmospheric masterpiece, now in a deluxe gift edition

After Dark

the classic Japanese love-story, now in a deluxe gift edition

Norwegian Wood

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Kafka on the Shore

mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of NORWEGIAN WOOD

First Person Singular

The T-Shirts I Love

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Killing Commendatore

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Birthday Girl

Two Novels

Wind/ Pinball

FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-WINNING FILM DRIVE MY CAR

Men Without Women

Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

Absolutely on Music

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Desire

After the Quake

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In a dance with the delights of Murakami's imagination we experience the limitless possibilities of fiction. With these stories Murakami expands our hearts and minds yet again

Ushers the reader into a hallucinatory world where the real and surreal merge and overlap, where dreams and real-life nightmares are impossible to tell apart...this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world...Lewis Carroll meets Kafka with a touch of Philip K. Dick

Dazzlingly elegant...In a world where even the ground beneath our feet can't be relied on, imagination becomes less of a luxury and more of a duty. It's an obligation that Murakami is busily making his raison d'etre, to our very great advantage

In the world of literary fiction, Haruki Murakami is unquestionably a superstar...Many critics have touted Murakami for the Nobel Prize. If he can stay on this kind of form, he could be in with a chance

Murakami is a unique writer, at once restrained and raw, plainspoken and poetic

A neat, yet somehow insanely generous collection..ruthless honesty, a faintly feminine openness, a seeming ability to find beauty and even glory in the banal, the urban, the modern... [the story] 'Honey Pie' isn't just a love story. It's a piece of writing about the threads and snags of time, the tangles, the way things pan out and why. I couldn't even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that's Murakami's magic. He speaks to a place so deep inside us that we can scarcely even reply

Beautifully nuanced stories, realistic snapshots of modern Japan enclosed in a fictional world that is seemingly trivial, but loaded with portent

A really imaginative collection where all the stories are intertwined and mysterious in that Murakami way

Murakami's storytelling inspires intimacy. It's the particular kind of intimacy that can evolve between a reader and a book, unspoken and unexpected, familiar, satisfying, strange.

Even in the slipperiest of Mr Murakami's stories, pinpoints of detail flash out warm with life.

Murakami is one of the best writers around.

Murakami is a true original and yet in many ways he is also Franz Kafka's successor because he seems to have the intelligence to know what Kafka truly was - a comic writer.

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For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. 
 
Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 
 
'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry.' 
 
© Haruki Murakami 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe. 
 
Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm. 'When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes,' says Frog. 'And right now he is very, very angry.

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