Haruki Murakami

• Oct-1982
• / General Fiction
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A New York Times bestselling author -- and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review) -- delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where ...

• Mar-1993
• / General Fiction
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Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in whi...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers att...

• Jan-1994
• / Suspense
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Dance Dance Dance -- a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase -- is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a ...

• Nov-1997
• / Magical Realism
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force -- and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat -- and then for his wife as well -- in a n...

• Feb-1999
• / General Fiction
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South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childho...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual pas...

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.  On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison...

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love.Now with a new introduction from the author.K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life ...

• 2002
• / General Fiction
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Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who 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, w...

• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package -...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday lif...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters--Eri, ...

• Nov-2008
• / Literary
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Cats slink across the pages; the seasons are marked by cherry blossom and Japanese maple; spaghetti strands or telephone cords separate the days; and a generous selection of quotations, extracts, and facts from Murakami's novels and stories appear ...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction
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One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel 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. In the subtle...

• Feb-2011
• / Literary
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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 her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she cal...

• Aug-2014
• / Literary
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"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" is the long-awaited new novel -- a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan -- from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami...

• Dec-2014
• / Urban Fantasy
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From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami -- a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange w...

• Aug-2015
• / Fantasy
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Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a...

• May-2017
• / Fantasy
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A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruk...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued l...

• Nov-2018
• / Literary
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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 uninten...

• Apr-2021
• / Magical Realism
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a unive...

• Nov-2021
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• Mar-2022
• / General Fiction
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The basis for the Academy-Award®-nominated major motion picture.   In this short story from Haruki Murakami’s bestselling collection, Men Without Women, a widowed actor hires a twenty-year-old woman to be his chauffeur. Despite...

• Sep-2023
• / Graphic Novel
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Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time!Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami's best...

• Apr-2024
• / General Fiction
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Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form!Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this three-volume se...

• Nov-2024
• / Literary
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From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times. "Haruki Murakami invented ...

• / Literary
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Discover the work of Haruki Murakami with this anthology from Vintage Readers, a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers.“Murakami’s bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius. . . . A wo...