Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention ... More »
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Norwegian Wood
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This novel is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. The story's protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo. Through Toru's reminiscences we s... More »
Wind Up Bird Chronicle
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story... More »
Sputnik Sweetheart
$24.95 (Paperback book / Harvill )
Twenty-two year-old Sumire is in love for the first time - with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an a... More »
After The Quake
$23.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsu... More »
South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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 ... More »
Elephant Vanishes
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
This collection of stories exposes Japan as it is experienced from the inside. The stories take place in parallel worlds, not so much remote from normal life as hidden beneath its surface. When a man's favourite elephant... More »
Dance Dance Dance
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic thirteen year-old drop-out with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hot... More »
Wild Sheep Chase
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold... More »
Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all r... More »
Underground
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami interviews the victims to try ... More »
After Dark
$22.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician ha... More »
Kafka On The Shore
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
KAFKA ON THE SHORE follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recover... More »
Birthday Stories
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Inc... More »
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatch... More »