Haruki Murakami. Knopf, $30 (928p) ISBN 978-0-307-59331-3
The massive new novel from international sensation Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) sold out in his native Japan, where it was released in three volumes, and is bound to provoke a similar reaction in America, where rabid fans...
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Haruki Murakami, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-75053-6
The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums. (July)
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Haruki Murakami, Author Knopf Publishing Group $21 (327p) ISBN 978-0-679-42057-6
A popular Japanese novelist who lives in New Jersey but sets his fictions in Japan, Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase ) invests everyday events with surreal overtones to create 17 disturbing existential conundrums. Things appear from, and disappear to,...
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Haruki Murakami, read by Adam Sims and Ian Porter, Naxos Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-962-634-338-8
Murakami's two stories—which alternate, chapter by chapter—are told by two narrators, who split duties here. Ian Porter is the baritone, thoughtful and deliberative; Adam Sims is lighter spirited, flightier, and more amused by the bizarre comedy of...
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Haruki Murakami, read by Adam Sims. Random House Audio, unabridged, digital download, 7 hrs., $17.50 ISBN 978-0-8041-6667-6
For Murakami’s novel—a portrait of love in modern-day Japan—narrator Adam Sims delivers a straightforward but layered performance that manages to capture the essence of the book’s protagonist, a writer who falls in love with a classmate, but whose...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-35212-3
Given Murakami’s (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) fervent fan base and the enduring strangeness that characterizes his work, it’s not surprising that an aura of mystery surrounds his first two novels: the only previous English...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen. Knopf, $18 (92p) ISBN 978-0-385-35430-1
A boy's routine day at the public library becomes a trip down the rabbit hole in Murakami's (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) short novel. The boy meets a demanding old man, who forces him to read the books he's requested in a...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen, read by Kirby Heyborne. Random House Audio, 8 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-8041-9027-5
This volume collects the first two novels, written in 1978 and never before published in the U.S., by internationally acclaimed Japanese author Murakami. Hear the Wind Sing is a touching and almost totally uneventful sketch of a record-collecting...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Ted Goossen, read by Kirby Heyborne. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 1 CDs, 1 hr., $20 ISBN 978-0-553-54651-4
In this short, dreamy fable by Japanese fantasist Murakami, a young student describes his arrival at an odd Tokyo library. For no apparent reason, he is sent to the ancient, abrasive librarian, who leads him through an underground labyrinth of rooms
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Haruki Murakami, with Seiji Ozawa, trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. Knopf, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-35434-9
These chats between novelist Murakami and Ozawa, former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, contain intriguing insights about the nature of music. Over a two-year period (2010–2011), Murakami and Ozawa sat down to listen to and reflect upon...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Alfred T. Birnbaum, Translator Vintage Books USA $15 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-74346-0
Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future. (Mar.)
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Jay Rubin, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. Knopf $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-41390-2
These six stories, all loosely connected to the disastrous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, are Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Norwegian Wood) at his best. The writer, who returned to live in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, measures his country's
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Jay Rubin, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. Knopf $22 (191p) ISBN 978-0-307-26583-8
Murakami's 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely related stories, linked by Murakami's signature magical-realist absurd...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Jay Rubin, Translator Vintage Books USA $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-70402-4
In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Jay Rubin, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $25.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-679-44669-9
After his wife disappears, unemployed 30-year-old paralegal Toru Okada gets embroiled in a surreal, sprawling drama--part detective story, part history lesson, part metaphysical speculation, part satire--that marks Japanese novelist Murakami's (Dance
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Alfred Birnbaum, Translator Plume Books $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-26516-5
A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep. In ``a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account of an...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Alfred Birnbaum, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $21.95 (400p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1544-0
There ought to be a name for the genre Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase ) has invented, and it might be the literary pyrotechno-thriller. The plot here is so elaborate that about 100 pages, one-fourth of the book, elapse before its various elements...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Alfred Birnbaum, Translator Kodansha America $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87011-905-7
Immensely popular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published here is a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account of an impossible quest. The narrator is a...
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On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
etc.
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40251-7
Lost loves and passionate mistakes haunt the successful but aimless man who tells his life story in this oddly gripping, often dreamlike tale. Growing up in the suburbs of post-WWII Japan, where families of two or three children are the rule, Hajime
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41169-4
Murakami's seventh novel to be translated into English is a short, enigmatic chronicle of unrequited desire involving three acquaintances the narrator, a 24-year-old Tokyo schoolteacher; his friend Sumire, an erratic, dreamy writer who idolizes...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf $20 (179p) ISBN 978-0-307-26919-5
Murakami's latest is a nonfiction work mostly concerned with his thoughts on the long-distance running he has engaged in for much of his adult life. Through a mix of adapted diary entries, old essays, reminiscences and life advice, Murakami...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-35210-9
Murakami’s (1Q84) latest novel, which sold more than a million copies during its first week on sale in Japan, is a return to the mood and subject matter of the acclaimed writer’s earlier work. Living a simple, quotidian life as a train station...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4366-8
Previous books such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
and Norwegian Wood
have established Murakami as a true original, a fearless writer possessed of a wildly uninhibited imagination and a legion of fiercely devoted fans. In this latest addition to...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Philip Gabriel, Translator, Jay Rubin, Translator . Knopf $25 (333p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4461-0
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One of my favorite Haruki Murakami stories is "The Elephant Vanishes"—part of an earlier collection published in 1991—in which the narrator watches as an elephant in a zoo grows smaller and...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Rupert Degas, Read by , read by Rupert Degas. Naxos Audiobooks $141.98 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-418-7
Amazingly long, incredibly pricey, wildly experimental, often confusing but never boring, Murakami's most famous novel has been brought to audio life with extreme dedication: by Naxos, a company that regularly wins prizes, and by a reader with...
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Haruki Murakami, Author, Elmer Luke, Editor, Alfred Birnbaum, Translator Kodansha International (JPN) $22 (393p) ISBN 978-4-7700-1683-6
In this impressive sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami displays his talent to brilliant effect. The unnamed narrator, a muddled freelance writer, is 34 and no closer to finding happiness than he was in the previous book. Divorced, bereaved and...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen. Knopf, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-451-49462-7
In this collection of new stories, Murakami (1Q84) returns to familiar themes of youthful regrets, untenable romantic triangles, strange manifestations of sexual frustration, and inexplicable, often otherworldly happenings while dipping into the...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. Knopf, $30 (704p) ISBN 978-0-525-52004-7
Murakami’s latest (following Men Without Women) is a meticulous yet gripping novel whose escalating surreal tone complements the author’s tight focus on the domestic and the mundane. The unnamed narrator, a talented but unambitious portrait-painter...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-31807-2
Murakami’s engrossing collection (after the novel Killing Commendatore) offers a crash course in his singular style and vision, blending passion for music and baseball and nostalgia for youth with portrayals of young love and moments of magical...
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Haruki Murakami. Knopf, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-32042-6
In this collection of beguiling pieces novelist Murakami (1Q84) wrote for the Japanese fashion magazine Popeye, he reflects on his collection of T-shirts and the comfortable, quippy, and blithely consumerist aspects of life they represent. An “I Put
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. Knopf, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-451-49464-1
Novelist Murakami (1Q84) reveals the tricks of the trade in this stellar essay collection, originally published in Japan in 2015. In “Are Novelists Broadminded?” he observes that “people with brilliant minds are not particularly well suited to...
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Haruki Murakami, Jean-Christophe Deveney, and PMGL, trans. from the Japanese by Cathy Layne. Tuttle, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1764-8
In this adept international collaboration, a French comics team transforms four fantasy-tinted short stories by Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) into comics, bringing his vertiginous imagination to life. A mild-mannered assistant bank manager...
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Haruki Murakami, trans. from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Knopf, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-80197-0
Bestseller Murakami (Killing Commendatore) unspools an intoxicating fantasy of a parallel world. The unnamed middle-aged narrator recounts how, at 17, he fell in love with a 16-year-old girl who told him of a walled city in which her “real” self...
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