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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—-the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat-—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. 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...
