Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man …

Birthday Stories is a 2002 short story anthology edited by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite the theme's happy connotations most of the short stories have a dark, melancholic atmosphere.

Por uma noite, Murakami leva-nos com ele através de uma Tóquio sombria, onírica, hipnótica. Um deslumbrante romance perpassado de uma singular atmosfera poética, na fronteira entre a realidade e o universo fantasmático, onde cada pormenor, olhado retrospectivamente, faz sentido. Num bar, Mari encontra-se mergulhada …

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 …