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. 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. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year.
One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. 'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The Times Read more 'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph 'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' Independent on Sunday 'Visionary.a bold and generous book' New York Times Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.Īs this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. His wife is growing more distant every day. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author, to celebrate the forthcoming publication of Novelist as a VocationĪ special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author A special hardback edition of Muarkami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
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