Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka On The Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
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Books by Haruki Murakami
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1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/08/2012
A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Vintage 21
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 03/10/2011
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original - The Times
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/06/2011
The release of the film tie-in edition of Murakiam’s coming-of-age cult classic of love and loss is to coincide with the new major motion picture starring Rinko Kikuchi (‘Babel’).
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/12/2010
ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Limited Centenary edition
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/06/2010
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original - The Times
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/06/2009
The first, fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer
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Murakami Diary
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/10/2008
Murakami's fictional world has been called beautiful, bizarre and endlessly beguiling - now you can inhabit it all year round
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After Dark
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 02/06/2008
Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning new novel from the master of the surreal.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 02/07/2007
An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author.
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Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/08/2006
A collection of twelve birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. Selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami.
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Kafka On The Shore
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 03/10/2005
An unusual and mesmerising novel from the cult Japanese author
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Underground
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 03/11/2003
'Murakami shares with Alfred Hitchcock a fascination for ordinary people being suddenly plucked by extraordinary circumstances from their daily lives' Sunday Telegraph
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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'Murakami must already rank among the world's greatest living novelists' Guardian
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After The Quake
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration' Independent on Sunday
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Dance Dance Dance
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' Observer
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind' Guardian
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South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful-it is startlingly different: a true original' Guardian
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The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/04/2003
'A remarkable writer-he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney
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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki MurakamiPublished: 01/11/2002
'In the spring of her 22nd year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains - flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits' Sputnik Sweetheart
