Haruki Murakami

"Two narrative threads run through this daring, dazzling new novel by Haruki Murakami. One is a Tokyo of the near future, a hard-boiled wonderland where information confers power and right. The other is a timeless refuge of the unconscious, the "end of the world", where the inhabitants know no evil nor death but where they have no human essence. Slowly, these parallel threads begin to converge"--from book jacket.

"In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman...

Famous Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami puts to stories in this book. One talks about the end of days and the other one talks about coldness of foreign land. It is full of imagination and adventures knitting together the country land of Haruki Murakami's inner minds. 第二十一回 谷崎潤一郎賞 獲獎作品 　　同時進行的兩則故事即將交織成出人意表的結局。 　　寂靜的幻想世界與波瀾萬丈的冒險犯難，兩則故事同時進行，卻又相互交織出村上春樹不可思議的國度。...

“Novelist as a Profession” is a collection of essays by Haruki Murakami (1949–), a contemporary Japanese writer known for Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. Named one of the TIME 100's most influential people in 2015, Murakami is a critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, as his works being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies. 村上春樹的自傳性隨筆，首度面對全世界...

This story talks about a man who seems to have a very perfect life. He has a great job and loving wife. However, he is not satisfied completely. He is in dying desire to be comforted and fulfilled sexually and that is not something a wife can succeed. This is a letter to those who he loved and loved him. 血淋淋地描寫日常中的不安的話題作品。 要找出現在的我的存在究竟有什麼意義的話， 我必須竭盡所能地持續那件事--大概吧。...

第一人稱單數 村上春樹睽違六年的短篇小說集 短篇小說，是一個世界的無數切口 當世界不斷變遷 唯有故事留住剎那光景 　　「第一人稱單數」是切取世界某個斷片的「單眼」。但那樣的切口越多，「單眼」就越會無窮交錯成為「複眼」。到那時，我不再是我，僕（我）也不再是僕。以及，對，你也不再是你。屆時會發生甚麼？沒有發生甚麼？歡迎來到「第一人稱單數」的世界。...

Teenager Kafka Tamura 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, is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.