Review
Mind-bending…touches beautifully on love, solitude, childhood memories, dreamlike scenarios, invented jazz albums and meditations on music. In true Murakami tale-telling perfection, it’s devourable ― Irish Daily Mail
I never tire of re-entering Murakami’s world, finding his Proustian ability to covey the texture of memory exhilarating, and his fatalistic heroes and their deadpan response to the melodramatic and the outré soothing — Jake Kerridge ― Daily Telegraph
These stories are unmistakably Murakami’s for the way they traffic in his signature themes of time and memory, nostalgia and young love… each one [story] has insights that remain with you long after they are done — Alexander Nurnberh ― Sunday Times
The hallmarks of Haruki Murakami’s longer fiction are all here; an enigmatic eeriness which hints at the supernatural in everyday situations, a love of jazz and baseball, and the nourishing nostalgia of pop music ― Daily Mail
About the Author
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9781787302600
- Publisher: Harvill Secker
- Published: September 2020
- Pages: 256
- Binding: Hardcover
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