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After Darkby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0307278735 (0-307-27873-5)
Softcover, Vintage Anchor Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Dark'Book summary:A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamis masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.
At its center are two sistersEri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennys toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims theyve met before, a burly female love hotel manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These night people are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Eris slumbermysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crimewill either restore or annihilate her.
After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agencythe interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakamis trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. [via] -
After the Quake : Storiesby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0099452057 (0-09-945205-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Quake (Export)'Book summary:Haruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks in the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami returned home. The stories in After the Quake are set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack, presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation. A teenage girl and a middle-aged man share a hobby of making beach bonfires; a businesswoman travels to Thailand and, quietly, confronts her own death; three friends act out a modern-day Tokyo version of Jules and Jim. There's a surreal element running through the collection in the form of unlikely frogs turning up in unlikely places. News of the earthquake hums throughout. The book opens with the dull buzz of disaster-watching: "Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at the crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways." With language that's never self-consciously lyrical or show-offy, Murakami constructs stories as tight and beautiful as poems. There's no turning back for his people; there's only before and after the quake. --Claire Dederer [via]
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After the Quake Headerby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0099452944 (0-09-945294-4)
Softcover, Random House
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Dance Dance Danceby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131456 (0-241-13145-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Elephant Vanishesby Haruki Murakami , Alfred BirnbaumISBN 024100165X (0-241-00165-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Hard Boiled Wonderlandby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0140241450 (0-14-024145-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0140154353 (0-14-015435-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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Kafka on the Shore Exportby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0099494094 (0-09-949409-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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Norwegian Woodby Haruki Murakami , Jay RubinISBN 0375704027 (0-375-70402-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norwegian Wood'Book summary:In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he's finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami's later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book's autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it's hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man.
Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles:
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite [via]More editions of Norwegian Wood:
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Storiesby Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Haruki Murakami , Jay RubinISBN 0140449701 (0-14-044970-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories'Book summary:This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories with an introduction by Haruki Murakami. Akutagawas disturbing tales of human passion capture the cultural upheaval of early twentieth century Japan, ranging from “In the Grove, the basis of Kurosawas famous film Rashomon, to Akutagawas later, more autobiographical writings.[via]More editions of Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories:
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South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki Murakami , Philip GabrielISBN 0375402519 (0-375-40251-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'Book summary:In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:
When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.
Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of South of the Border, West of the Sun:
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Sputnik Sweetheart : A Novelby Haruki Murakami , Philip GabrielISBN 0375411690 (0-375-41169-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sputnik Sweetheart : A Novel'Book summary:Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."
The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring young novelist with chronic writer's block. Sumire is suddenly smitten with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a chilling secret about Sumire's lover.
Sputnik Sweetheart is a melancholy love story, and its deceptively simple prose is saturated with sadness. Characters struggle to connect with one another but never quite succeed. Like the satellite of the title they are essentially alone. And by toning down the pyrotechnics of his earlier work, Murakami has created a world that is simultaneously mundane and disturbing--where doppelgängers and vanishing cats produce a pervasive atmosphere of alienation, and identity itself seems like a terribly fragile thing. --Simon Leake [via]
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Sputnik Sweetheart Headerby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0099452863 (0-09-945286-3)
Softcover, Random House
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psycheby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0375703888 (0-375-70388-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Vintage Fantasy: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & The Wind-up Bird Chronicleby Haruki Murakami , Lewis CarrollISBN 0099511401 (0-09-951140-1)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vintage Fantasy: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & The Wind-up Bird Chronicle'Book summary:"Vintage Fantasy" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and Haruki Murakami's cult bestseller "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle." "Vintage Fantasy" is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland": Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and attends a very strange tea party and croquet match. This immensely witty and unique story mixes satire and puzzles, comedy and anxiety, to provide an astute depiction of the experience of childhood. "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle": Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. [via]
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Runningby Haruki Murakami , Philip GabrielISBN 0307269191 (0-307-26919-1)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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A Wild Sheep Chaseby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0140241442 (0-14-024144-2)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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