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, First Person Singular and The City
and Its Uncertain Walls 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.
Jay Rubin (Translator)
Jay Rubin is the author of Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and
the Meiji State and Making Sense of Japanese, and he edited Modern
Japanese Writers for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated
into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and
also Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
and after the quake.
For sheer love of a thumping narrative, the novel delivers
gloriously-Inventive, alluring
*Guardian*
Wonderful-Magical and outlandish
*Daily Mail*
Cool, fluent and addictive
*Daily Telegraph*
Hypnotic, spellbinding
*The Times*
A magnificently bewildering achievement-Brilliantly conceived, bold
in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot-Exuberant
storytelling
*Independent on Sunday*
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