Winner of the Tanizaki Literary Prize.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His works of fiction include A Wild Sheep Chase; Norwegian Wood; Dance Dance Dance; South of the Border, West of the Sun; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart; and The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of short stories.
"Murakami's bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius... a world class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks" Washington Post; "He has become the foremost representative of the new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical, highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism and hard-boiled detective fiction... Murakami is adept at outrageous wit, outrageous style" Los Angeles Times
"Murakami's bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius... a world class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks" Washington Post; "He has become the foremost representative of the new style of Japanese writing: hip, cynical, highly stylized, set at the juncture of cyberpunk, postmodernism and hard-boiled detective fiction... Murakami is adept at outrageous wit, outrageous style" Los Angeles Times
Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future. (Mar.)
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