“haruki murakami”

“An insistently metaphysical mind bender”Kofka on the shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a grue some oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who n... More

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author. A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror app... More

'His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind' Guardian A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective st... More

'Murakami shares with Alfred Hitchcock a fascination for ordinary people being suddenly plucked by extraordinary circumstances from their daily lives' Sunday Telegraph In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suf... More

'A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful-it is startlingly different: a true original' Guardian Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. T... More

Cats slink across the pages; the seasons are marked by cherry blossom and Japanese maple; noodle strands or telephone cords separate the days; and a generous selection of quotations and extracts from Murakami's novels and stories appear on almost every page to inspire, amuse or entertain. This is a ... More

Twenty-two year-old Sumire is in love for the first time - with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like... More