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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 rannalla on Haruki Murakamin vuonna 2002 ilmestynyt maagis-realistinen romaani. Teos sai vuonna 2006 World Fantasy -palkinnon sekä Franz Kafka -palkinnon. Kirja on ilmestynyt suomeksi vuonna 2009 Juhani Lindholmin käännöksenä Tammen Keltaisessa kirjastossa. Suomennos on tehty amerikanenglannista japaninkielisen …

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Norwegian Wood on Haruki Murakamin vuonna 1987 ilmestynyt romaani. Teoksen pohjalta on tehty elokuva vuonna 2010. Tammi julkaisi Aleksi Milonoffin englannista kääntämän suomennetun painoksen vuonna 2012. Kirja oli Japanissa erittäin suosittu ja nosti Murakamin tähdeksi.

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In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, …

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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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Sputnik-rakastettuni on Haruki Murakamin vuonna 1999 ilmestynyt romaani. Kirja on ilmestynyt suomeksi vuonna 2003 Ilkka Malisen käännöksenä Tammen Keltaisessa kirjastossa. Suomennos on tehty englanninkielisestä käännöksestä.

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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 …