Dance dance dance : a novel

Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.A poignant story of one college student’s romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man’s first, hopeless, and heroic love. Read more…

Haruki Murakami

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Murakami, Haruki

From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels. Read more…

Murakami, Haruki

The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear in his apartment one morning, and disappear at the end of the book. Interspersed with the narrative are his memories of the Japanese student movement, and of his old girlfriend Naoko, who hanged herself, like the character of the same name in Murakami's later novel Norwegian Wood. The plot alternates between describing the life of narrator and that of his friend, The Rat. -- Description from http://www.goodreads.com (May 27, 2015) Read more…

By Haruki Murakami; Translated From The Japanese By Jay Rubin

Two sisters--Eri, a fashion model sleeping her way to oblivion, and Mari, a young student--form the center of a novel that documents a series of encounters--with a jazz trombonist, the manager of a "love hotel" and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute brutalized by a businessman client--in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn Read more…

Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel; Jay Rubin

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those who ought to be the closest of all. RunTime: 13 hrs 30 min, 2 CDs. \* Mp3 CD Format \*. Following the best-selling triumph of "Kafka on the Shore," comes a collection that generously expresses Murakami's mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder has written in the "Los Angeles Times Book Review," "He addresses the fantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity and lightness." Read more…

Haruki Murakami

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever. Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much. He must find her before someone else does. ** Murakami’s new novel is coming ** COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE 'The reason why death had such a hold on Tsukuru Tazaki was clear. One day his four closest friends, the friends he’d known for a long time, announced that they did not want to see him, or talk with him, ever again' Read more…

Haruki 1949- Murakami; J Philip Gabriel

Amazon.com ReviewThe opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in Kafka On The Shore--the deceptively placid narrative lifts off, and you find yourself breaking through clouds at a tilt, no longer certain where the plane is headed or if the laws of flight even apply. Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world1s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.To say that the fantastic elements of Kafka On The Shore are complicated and never fully resolved is not to suggest that the novel fails. Although it may not live up to Murakami's masterful \_\_, Nakata and Kafka's fates keep the reader enthralled to... Read more…

村上春樹, Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Is An International Phenomenon. When Books One And Two Of His Latest Masterpiece, 1q84, Were Published In Japan, A Million Copies Were Sold In One Month, And The Critical Acclaim That Ensued Was Reported All Over The Globe. Readers Were Transfixed By The Mesmerising Story Of Aomame And Tengo And The Strange Parallel Universe They Inhabit. Then, One Year Later, To The Surprise And Delight Of His Readers, Murakami Published An Unexpected Book Three, Bringing The Story To A Close. In Order To Reflect The Experience Of 1q84's First Readers, Harvill Secker Is Publishing Books One And Two In One Beautifully Designed Volume And Book Three In A Separate Edition. A Long-awaited Treat For His Fans, 1q84 Is Also A Thrilling Introduction To The Unique World Of Murakami's Imagination. This Hypnotically Addictive Novel Is A Work Of Startling Originality And, As The Title Suggests, A Mind-bending Ode To George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. (the Number 9 In Japanese Is Pronounced Like The Letter 'q'). The Year Is 1984. Aomame Sits In A Taxi On The Expressway In Tokyo. Her Work Is Not The Kind Which Can Be Discussed In Public But She Is In A Hurry To Carry Out An Assignment And, With The Traffic At A Stand-still, The Driver Proposes A Solution. She Agrees, But As A Result Of Her Actions Starts To Feel Increasingly Detached From The Real World. She Has Been On A Top-secret Mission, And Her Next Job Will Lead Her To Encounter The Apparently Superhuman Founder Of A Religious... Read more…

Haruki Murakami; Translated From The Japanese By Jay Rubin And Philip Gabriel

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” "Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers... But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” - The New York Times Book Review Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unravelled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s - 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most... Read more…

Haruki Murakami; Translated By Alfred Birnbaum

BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION 1987 English softcover, with the original obi, clean text NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear; WE SHIP FAST. 201503824 Carefully packed and quickly sent in rugged shipping box (or Priority Envelope). Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available; $3.99 Standard /Media Mail can take up to 3 weeks.\*\* Read more…

Haruki Murakami

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” ( New York Times Book Review )—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Read more…

Murakami, Haruki; Birnbaum, Alfred

in This Propulsive Novel By The Author Of Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World And The Elephant Vanishes, One Of The Most Idiosyncratically Brilliant Writers At Work In Any Language Fuses Science Fiction, The Hard-boiled Thriller, And White-hot Satire Into A New Element Of The Literary Periodic Table. as He Searches For A Mysteriously Vanished Girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's Protagonist Plunges Into A Wind Tunnel Of Sexual Violence And Metaphysical Dread In Which He Collides With Call Girls; Plays Chaperone To A Lovely Teenaged Psychic; And Receives Cryptic Instructions From A Shabby But Oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance Is A Tense, Poignant, And Often Hilarious Ride Through The Cultural Cuisinart That Is Contemporary Japan, A Place Where Everything That Is Not Up For Sale Is Up For Grabs. publishers Weekly in This Impressive Sequel To A Wild Sheep Chase , Murakami Displays His Talent To Brilliant Effect. The Unnamed Narrator, A Muddled Freelance Writer, Is 34 And No Closer To Finding Happiness Than He Was In The Previous Book. Divorced, Bereaved And Abandoned By His Various Lovers, He Is Drawn To The Dolphin Hotel--a Strange And Lonely Establishment Where Kiki, A Woman He Once Lived With, ``upped And Vanished.'' Kiki And The Sheep Man, An Odd Fellow Who Wears A Sheepskin And Speaks In A Toneless Rush, Visit The Narrator In Visions That Lead Him To Two Mysteries, One Metaphysical (how To Survive The Unsurvivable) And The Other Physical (a Call Girl's... Read more…

Murakami, Haruki

From Publishers Weekly The virtuoso Japanese novelist presents 17 playful and darkly comic existentialist conundrums. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This collection of 15 stories from a popular Japanese writer, perhaps best known in this country for A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 11/15/89), gives a nice idea of his breadth of style. The work maintains the matter-of-fact tone reminiscent of American detective fiction, balancing itself somewhere between the spare realism of Raymond Carver and the surrealism of Kobo Abe. These are not the sort of stories that one thinks of as "Japanese"; the intentionally Westernized style and well-placed reference to pop culture gives them a contemporary and universal feel. Engaging, thought-provoking, humorous, and slyly profound, these skillful stories will easily appeal to American readers but must present something of a challenge to the Japanese cultural establishment. At their best, however, they serve to dispel cultural stereotypes and reveal a common humanity. Recommended for libraries with an interest in contemporary fiction. - Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more…

Murakami, Haruki

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation.It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best. Read more…

Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin

Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. 'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around'-Time Out 'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility'-Guardian 'This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows'-Independent on SundayHaruki Murakami is a world famous Japanese novelist. His many evocative and poignant works are focused around the themes of alienation, surrealism and nihilism and most are worldwide bestsellers. He has won The World Fantasy Award, The International Short Story Award, The Franz Kafka Prize and The Jerusalem prize, amongst several others. An important figure in postmodern literature, some of his classics include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, What I Talk about when I Talk about Running, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, and Kafka... Read more…

Murakami, Haruki

Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles. An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. The six stories in this collection come from the deep and mysterious place where the human meets the inhuman—and are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today. Read more…