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Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
Category: Reference
Discover the secrets of one of the world's most successful writers. This is the ultimate Christmas gift for aspiring writers and Murakami fans alike. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; h ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
Category: Reference
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Category: Reference
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Series: HM
In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime--"beginning" in Japanese--has arrived at mid ...Show more
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
"Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. ow ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
"Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a n ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami Haruki
Category: Fiction | Series: HM
Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of "Norwegian Wood" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified onl ...Show more
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
"When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (H/B) by Jay Rubin (Editor); Haruki Murakami (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable examples being written today. Curated by Jay Rubin (who has ...Show more
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to ...Show more