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Includes the story "Barn Burning" which is now the basis for the major motion picture BurningComing this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki MurakamiIn the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air, a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hu...

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This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the authors life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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, which turned Murakami from a wri...

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An eclectic and eccentric collection of short stories from the Japanese master of magic realism. Spanning five years of his writing, it includes a stories of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear, a nightwatchman whose reflection in a mysterious mirror tries to take control of him, and a couple whose relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on crab. Always favouring the surreal over the real, this is a dazzling ...

Collects "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" in which a 'shuffler' is at work in Tokyo, where the minds of the people have become servant to the requirements of the governmental 'system', and "End of the World" in which a 'dreamreader' sifts through memories, scattering them to oblivion.

Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Hear the Wind Sing. The narrator has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live wi...

This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the authors life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.

From the bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, this is a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life.

Tengo, dove sei?" Ci sono amori che devono attraversare universi per incontrarsi. Ci sono amori che devono superare ostacoli, difficoltà, avversari, enigmi. Amori che devono, soprattutto, vincere le paure interiori inquietanti e terribili come piccole creature che albergano dentro di noi per poter creare a propria volta un mondo in cui non ci sia più la paura, un mondo nuovo in cui essere al sicuro in due. Aomame e Tengo vivono da sei mesi in ...

1984, Tokyo. Aomame è bloccata in un taxi nel traffico. L'autista le suggerisce, come unica soluzione per non mancare all'appuntamento che l'aspetta, di uscire dalla tangenziale utilizzando una scala di emergenza, nascosta e poco frequentata. Ma, sibillino, aggiunge di fare attenzione: "Non si lasci ingannare dalle apparenze. La realtà è sempre una sola". Negli stessi giorni Tengo, un giovane aspirante scrittore dotato di buona tecnica ma pove...

Una mattina Gregor Samsa si sveglia in un letto e scopre con orrore di essersi trasformato in un essere umano. Non ricorda nulla della sua vita precedente. Che fine ha fatto lo spesso carapace che lo proteggeva? E perché adesso è ricoperto da questa sottile, delicata pelle rosa? Chi, o cosa, era prima di quel risveglio? Insomma, adesso Samsa dovrà adattarsi alla nuova e "mostruosa" condizione di uomo. Quando però...

Fino ad allora Hajime aveva vissuto in un universo abitato solo da lui: figlio unico quando, nel Giappone degli anni Cinquanta, era rarissimo non avere fratelli o sorelle, aveva fatto della propria eccezionalità una fortezza in cui nascondersi, un modo per zittire quella sensazione costante di non essere mai lì dove si vorrebbe veramente. Invece un giorno scopre che la solitudine è solo un'abitudine, non un destino: lo capisce quando, a dodici...

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Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha casualmente mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo una vieja canción de los Beatles, y la música le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de finales de los sesenta. Toru recuerda, con una mezcla de melancolía y desasosiego, a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor �y único� amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki. El suicidio de éste les distancia durante un año hasta que...

Hajime, el narrador, nació la primera semana del primer mes del primer año de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, una fecha singular, como su nombre: Principio en japonés. Sin embargo, le marcó mucho más el hecho de ser hijo único, porque en las demás familias, si no eran dos hermanos, eran tres, si no eran tres, eran dos. De ahí que su mejor amiga de la infancia fuera otra hija única, Shimamoto, con la que compartió secretos y aficiones hasta que,...

Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.Toru, a 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. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A ...

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami's most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime's quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly ...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly ima...