He has also translated a number of English works into Japanese, from Raymond Carver to J. Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–2010). His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), while his oeuvre garnered among others the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009). Murakami has been translated into 50 languages and his best-selling books have sold millions of copies. Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese writer. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. A dazzling new collection of short stories-the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami.Īcross seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone.
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