'The international bestseller from one of the world's greatest
living novelists' - Guardian
Shortlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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, which turned Murakami from a
writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were
translated into many languages, including English, and the door was
thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional
universe.
Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a
day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance
running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and
races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records
and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I
Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and
they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing
quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of
imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious
and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant
readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most
acclaimed and well-loved writers.
"A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami
cold write." -- Graham Morrison, five stars * Linux Voice *
"A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami
cold write." -- Graham Morrison, five stars * Linux Voice *
"It's pure, uncut Murakami." * Business Insider *
"Murakami's magnum opus" * Japan Times *
"1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else
in his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form
and content are neatly aligned... So like Murakami himself, I'll
borrow from Orwell: 1Q84 is quite simply doubleplusgood" *
Independent on Sunday *
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