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Χαρούκι Μουρακάμι

* January 12, 1949 in Japan
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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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O KATAΓKIPI BPHKE ENA ΓIΓANTIO BATPAXO NA TON ΠEPIMENEI ΣTO ΔIAMEPIΣMA TOY. "ΛEΓE ME BATPAXO", EIΠE O BATPAXOΣ ME KAΘAPH, ΔYNATH ΦΩNH.ENAΣ ΓIΓANTIOΣ BATPAXOΣ ΣΩZEI TO TOKIO AΠO ΣEIΣMO. MIA ΓIATPOΣ KOYBAΛAEI MEΣA THΣ MIA MYΣTHPIΩΔH ΠETPA. O ΣEIΣMANΘPΩΠOΣ AΠEIΛEI NA MAΣ XΩΣEI OΛOYΣ ΣTO KOYTI TOY. ENAΣ ZΩΓPAΦOΣ, ΠOY …

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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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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 special movie-tie in edition for the long-awaited film release based on this beloved novel by Haruki Murakami: the story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, a journey to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student …

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Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward …

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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 …