Description
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 writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami¿s unique and addictive fictional universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami¿s place as one of the world¿s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
| EAN: | 9780099506249 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 05.06.2008 |
| Autoren: | Murakami, Haruki |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 201 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | modern classics; norwegian wood; short stories; kafka on the shore; why we sleep matthew walker; the midnight library matt haig; open water; the box; before the coffee gets cold toshikazu kawaguchi; a woman is no man; convenience store woman by sayaka murata; top 10 bestsellers; top ten book; the travelling cat chronicles; klara and the sun kazuo ishiguro; earthlings sayaka murata; 'all the light we cannot see'; the great passage; western fiction; top 10 fiction; latex fiction; fantasy; literary fiction; contemporary fiction; horror |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Japanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Magischer Realismus~Belletristik in Übersetzung |
| Imprint-Titels: | Vintage Books |
| Länge: | 197 mm |
| Breite: | 132 mm |
| Höhe: | 17 mm |