The first, fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer
Haruki Murakami (Author)
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.
Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams- Shimao
Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters-
The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated
many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern
writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his
translation of Senji Kuroi's Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
It’s an inspiring, reflective read that’ll make you want to dust
your trainers off
*Professional Social Work*
An outstanding read
*Eastern Daily Press*
If we all ran like brilliant Japanese novelist Murakami, would we write as well as he does? Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
It's an inspiring, reflective read that'll make you want to dust
your trainers off -- Andy McNicoll * Professional Social Work *
An outstanding read -- Peter Sharkey * Eastern Daily Press *
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