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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

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Independence

Parties

Lies

London

Power

Murder

Science

Religion

Family

Therapy

Recovery

A Vintage Christmas

Money

Friendship

Rave

Marriage

Injustice

Dreams

Austerity

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How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration

Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book.

You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart. 
 
Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women 
 
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. 
 
A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human 
 
 Also in the Vintage Minis series: 
 Love by Jeanette Winterson 
Psychedelics by Aldous Huxley 
Eating by Nigella Lawson 
Summer by Laurie Lee

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between

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.

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