Poetry Books by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book A Wild Sheep Chase Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage Classic
Published Date: 2015-08-06
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The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation. The man receives a letter from a friend, enclosing a seemingly innocent photograph of sheep, and a request: place the photograph somewhere it will be seen. Then, one September afternoon, the phone rings, and the adventure begins. Welcome to the wild sheep chase.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Harvill Press
Published Date: 2005
Categories: Short stories
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 nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab while on holiday; a man follows instructions on the back of a postcard to apply for a job, but an unknown password stands between him and his mysterious employer. In each one of these stories Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal. Everyday events are transcended, leaving the reader dazzled by this master of his craft.Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is Murakami's most eclectic collection of stories to date, spanning five years of his writing. An introduction explains the diversity of the author's choice.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Drive My Car Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2022-03-24
Categories: Fiction
NOW A BAFTA AND OSCAR-WINNING FILM Discover the inspiration for the Academy-Award®-winning major motion picture from Japan's master storyteller, Haruki Murakami. In this short story from Murakami's bestselling collection, Men Without Women, a widowed actor hires a twenty-year-old woman to be his chauffeur. Despite her reserved nature, the actor finds comfort in her stable presence, and a friendship blossoms as they slowly reveal their pasts. Crafted with delicacy and precision, Drive My Car is a meditative exploration of the need for human connection and our innate desire to be understood - even when we least expect it. PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI'S MEN WITHOUT WOMEN: 'Murakami, always inventive, is one of the finest writers at work today' Evening Standard 'Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect' Observer 'Astonishing' Grazia 'A funny, lovely, unmistakably Murakami collection of seven stories' Buzzfeed

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Underground Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2003
Categories: Cults
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 died, and the perpetrators.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Murakami 2020 Diary Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published Date: 2019-08-08
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A beautifully designed hardback diary for 2020, featuring unique artwork inspired by Haruki Murakami's works along with quotations and significant dates. Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. This diary includes visual and textual references to his works, from Wind/Pinball, A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood to Killling Commendatore and Novelist as a Vocation. Contents include: Yearly Planner Selection of Japanese Holidays and Festivals Dates of cycles of the moon Seasonal quotations and extracts from Murakami's books Significant dates from the books marked Images of jackets in progress as well as the finished versions Visual content from The Strange Library Specially designed artwork to match the seasons Notes section at the back Image or text on every recto, and weekly planner on verso.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai Authors: Hayao Kawai, Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Daimon
Published Date: 2016-08-01
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Two of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan, the transcript now makes its first appearance in English. Topics from the Contents: The Meaning of Commitment Words or Images? Making Stories Answering Logically versus Answering Compassionately Self-Healing and Novels Marriage and 'Well-digging' Curing and Living Stories and the Body The Relationship between a Work and its Author Individuality and Universality Violence and Expression Where are We Headed?

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Underground Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2010-08-11
Categories: History
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 gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Killing Commendatore Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2018-10-09
Categories: Fiction
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Wind/Pinball Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published Date: 2016-05-03
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The first two short novels--never before widely available in the U.S.--by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly translated, in one volume, with a new introduction by the author. Widely available in English for the first time ever, Wind/Pinball brings together the two first novels--Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973--by the legendary Haruki Murakami. Written at his kitchen table in the hours before dawn, these remarkable short works--powerful, at times surreal, stories about two young men coming of age--launched the career of one of the most celebrated authors of our time. Bearing all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books, Wind/Pinball gives readers a fascinating insight into a great writer's beginnings.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2014-08-12
Categories: Fiction
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friend­ship, and heartbreak for the ages. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book 1Q84 Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 2011
Categories: Fiction
The internationally best-selling and award-winning author of such works as What I Talk About When I Talk About Running presents a psychologically charged tale that draws on Orwellian themes. 100,000 first printing.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Afterdark Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher:
Published Date: 2007
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Geschichten zwischen Mitternacht und Morgengrauen - Murakami begleitet seine Helden eine Nacht lang und zeichnet ein eindrucksvolles, geheimnisvoll schillerndes Großstadtporträt - Die 19-jährige Mari, ihre schöne, aber unglückliche Schwester Eri, der unscheinbare Posaunist, die Prostituierte aus einem Love Hotel und ein gewissenloser Freier streifen durch das nächtliche Tokyo. Sie alle sind umgeben von Geheimnissen, die gelüftet werden wollen, noch ehe der Tag anbricht.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book 1Q84: Book 3 Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2011-10-25
Categories: Fiction
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever. Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much. He must find her before someone else does.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Men Without Women Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2017-05-09
Categories: Fiction
DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD DRIVE MY CAR, THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. 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. Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic. 'Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories...Murakami has a marvelous understanding of youth and age' Observer 'Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best' Financial Times

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Birthday Girl Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2019-01-24
Categories: Fiction
Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying short story . A taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday. She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant's reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday. Birthday Girl is also available in Birthday Stories and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book Desire Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Arrow
Published Date: 2017-05-29
Categories: Desire
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 language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from Haruki's Murakami's short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without WomenVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series- Love by Jeanette WintersonPsychedelics by Aldous HuxleyEating by Nigella LawsonSummer by Laurie Lee

Haruki Murakami Books, Haruki Murakami poetry book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2008-07-29
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists. While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of his progress. The result is a memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid recollections and insights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, here is a rich and revelatory work that elevates the human need for motion to an art form.



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