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Haruki Murakami

* January 12, 1949 in Japan
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a …

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Kafka a la platja és una novel·la de l'escriptor japonès Haruki Murakami publicada originalment l'any 2002; la seva primera edició en català va arribar l'any 2006. Des de la publicació en anglès l'any 2005, la novel·la ha rebut molt bones crítiques, arribant a ser inclosa a la llista dels 10 millors llibres del 2005 …

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Tòquio blues és una novel·la de l'escriptor japonès Haruki Murakami publicada originalment l'any 1987; la seva primera edició en català va arribar l'any 2005, traduïda per Albert Nolla Cabellos i publicada per Editorial Empúries.

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Despietat país de les meravelles i la Fi del Món és una novel·la de l'escriptor japonès Haruki Murakami publicada originalment l'any 1985. La primera edició catalana aparegué el novembre del 2009, publicada per Editorial Empúries.

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"A Wild Sheep Chase" is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on its back. This catapults him into a weird adventure to find the mythical sheep up in the wilds of …

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A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the …

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Haruki Murakami is unquestionably Japan!|s leading novelist with his many works { fiction and non-fiction { consistently reflecting contemporary Japanese life while, unusually, sustaining an international appeal through a deeply human perspective. Sputnik Sweetheart is his ninth novel, written in 1999, and tells the …

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A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances. Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But …

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An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists …

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A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life …