Haruki Murakami
21) 1Q84
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the...
25) Norwegian wood
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Toru and Naoko struggle to deal with the death of their best friend, but as Naoko finds life unbearable and "retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Haruki Murakami collects birthday-themed stories from contemporary English short stories published in recent years and compiles an anthology. He turned over all the short stories he had in his hand and read it again, and searched around for short stories and selected collections that he hadn't read yet. In the end, he collected the works of twelve famous contemporary English literary writers, plus his own story "Birthday Girl" to form this special...
28) Shui =: Nemuri
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of Murakami Haruki's surrealist short story: Sleep. A housewife suddenly becomes unable to fall asleep. The phenomenon continues for 17 days. In the meantime, she gives up on sleeping. And while her husband is sleeping, she begins to enjoy the activities she always wanted to do. Re-edited to incorporate illustrations by Kat Menschik in the book's German translation.
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 967
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
The latest collection of travel essays by Murakami Haruki, the popular contemporary Japanese writer. "Say, what is there in Laos?"
★ 畫布紙燙黑硬殼內封＋村上旅行生活照燙黑書衣 典藏精裝版！ 不確定為什麼要去，正是出發的理由！ 村上春樹睽違十年，巡訪七國十一地、最有溫度的行旅書寫！ 寮國到底有什麼？ 寮國只有寮國才有的東西， 你的人生也只有你人生才會有的樣子。...
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 961
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of Panya o oso (The bakery attack) by Murakami Haruki. A newlywed couple was hungry and craved bread, so they attacked a bakery. The first time was with a knife, the second with shotgun. They are not after money, just bread. This is one of Murakamis early work. A popular story newly illustrated by German artist Menschik.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Korean
Description
A South Korean man bumps into a former, but forgotten childhood classmate one day and he hits it off with the young woman. An immediate romantic tryst follows, but the young woman plans to leave for Africa in a few days. She asks her rediscovered friend to feed her cat while she is away. He does so and is eager for his new romantic interest to return. The situation quickly becomes complicated, however, when she returns from Africa with a mystery man...
34) Norwegian Wood
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not–outgoing, vivacious, and supremely self-confident—marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.
