Haruki Murakami (Author, Introducer)
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.
In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk
About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, 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.
Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye
*Daily Telegraph*
Everyone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for
friends and lovers... Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and
the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct
and slyly, charmingly evasive. They are playful and melancholy;
full of wrong turns and red herrings, corridors that lead nowhere
and - above all - girls who disappear
*Guardian*
A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks
of Murakami's hand
*The New York Times Book Review*
This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love,
booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and
describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows
*Independent on Sunday*
Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is
also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze
consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily
observed. Quietly compulsive and finally moving
*Times Literary Supplement*
A heart-stoppingly moving story... Murakami is, without a doubt,
one of the world's finest novelists
*Glasgow Herald*
Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one
of the best writers around
*Time Out*
Norwegian Wood . . . not only points to but manifests the author's
genius
*Chicago Tribune*
An intimate and dark story... A beautifully introspective novel
that made me feel all the emotions
*Cosmopolitan*
Murakami must already rank among the world's greatest living
novelists
*Guardian*
Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing
that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic
possibility
*Guardian*
Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
[A] treat...Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and
draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is
done
*Baltimore Sun*
Murakami's most famous coming of age novel of love, loss and
longing
*Dazed and Confused*
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