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Biographical note
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 and Men Without Women, 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.Wonderful... Magical and outlandish
Daily Mail
A magnificently bewildering achievement... Brilliantly conceived, bold in its surreal scope, sexy and driven by a snappy plot... Exuberant storytelling
Independent on Sunday
Cool, fluent and addictive
Daily Telegraph
Hypnotic, spellbinding
The Times
Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure
Evening Standard
Murakami's most addictive fix to date
Independent
Engrossing and wildly inventive
Times Literary Supplement
Laden with philosophical overtones and enchanting wit
Observer
Murakami's exquisitely simple prose and deft evocation of the surreal are captivating and sublime
Sunday Times
The mysteries are never tainted by explanation, merely beautifully described, delivering a hypnotic read
Times Higher Education Supplement
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.
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'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times
'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph
‘Addictive... Exhilarating... A pleasure’ Evening Standard
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.