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Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan’s foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include…
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Natsume Soseki
Depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university.
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Tomoki Wakatsuki
This book explores the idea of a new cosmopolitan Japanese identity through a socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
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Haruki Murakami
What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? The author has chosen for his party…
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Murakami Haruki’s new novel, ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’, is an instant bestseller in Korea. At the age of 36, Tazaki Tsukuru looks back at his life…
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Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a…
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…
En japones, la letra q y el numero 9 son homofonos, los dos se pronuncian kyu, de manera que 1Q84 es, sin serlo, 1984, una fecha de ecos orwellianos. Esa…
Primera persona del singular es el nuevo volumen de relatos del celebre autor japones. Esta compuesto por ocho cuentos, cuatro de ellos publicados solo en ingles en revistas como The…
Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 anos, escucha una vieja cancion de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio…
Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insolita y misteriosa desaparicion del elefante de un zoologico, un abogado desempleado que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su…
Aomame has come tantalisingly close to meeting her beloved Tengo only to have him slip away at the last minute. The followers of the cult leader she assassinated are determined…
The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness…
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…
Aomame sits in a taxi on expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out…
After Dark is a short, sleek novel that features various encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and is every bit as gripping as Murakami’s…
By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this memoir is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes that finds…
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around…
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship between Toro, a serious young college student in Tokyo, and Naoko, an introspective beauty.
The stories in this mesmerizing new collection are set at the time of the 1995 Kobe earthquake that claimed thousands of lives and rent the social fabric of Japan.
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. A lonely 20-something young man begins a surreal…
This account of the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by a Japanese religious cult is told, based on hundreds of interviews with survivors, relatives of those who…
Combining the seductions of Norwegian Wood with the complex mysteries of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, here is Murakami at his most intriguing, mystifying, and satisfying. In an urbane Japan of…
A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society–employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques–a job that contributes…
Fifteen tales encompass the story of a man obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from a local zoo and that of a young mother whose sleeplessness provides her with…
Magnificent… .(Murakami) has taken a pre-millennial swing for the fences a la David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo ( Newsweek ). A surreal, sprawling drama … that marks … Murakami’s…
Following the bestselling triumph of Kafka on the Shore, Murakami returns with a collection of stories that generously expresses his masterful fiction-writing skills. From the surreal to the mundane, these…
Chikako Nihei
This book studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami.
Masaki Mori
In the context of Haruki Murakami's real-life activities that are conducive to his writing, this book sheds light on three of his early short stories. Comparable to his acclaimed novels…
Highly respected author Eriko Kawakami interviewed Murakami Haruki on his creative success, the childhood memory, fame, daily life, his latest book Killing Commendatore, and even about his thoughts about his…
CHI edition of Book 1 of 1Q84 - a runaway bestseller by Haruki Murakami. 1Q84 is a near-past story inspired by Orwells futuristic 1984. It is told through the bizarre…
Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki’s long-awaited new full-length novel! Sold 2 million copies in the first six weeks of publication. Vol. 2 of 2. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Todo el mundo sabe que a Haruki Murakami le apasiona tanto la musica moderna y el jazz como la musica clasica. Esta pasion no solo le llevo a regentar en…
Now available to American audiences for the first time, Norwegian Wood is the story of a young Japanese student devoted to a beautiful young woman, but their mutual passions are…
The two major triad organizations both went after the device invented by an old scientists in order to gain control the human brain. The male protagonist, the old scientist and…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami’s Toni Takitani , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami’s The Year of Spaghetti, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…