Haruki Murakami Short Stories Collection 村上春樹
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Haruki Murakami (村上春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator.[1] His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex."
The collection includes:
1. レーダーホーゼン "Rēdāhōzen" "Lederhosen"
2. パン屋再襲撃 "Panya saishūgeki" "The Second Bakery Attack"
3. ハンティング・ナイフ "Hantingu naifu" "Hunting Knife"
4. 象の消滅 "Zō no shōmetsu" "The Elephant Vanishes"
5. トニー滝谷 "Tonī Takitani" "Tony Takitani"
6. 人喰い猫 "Hito-kui neko" "Man-Eating Cats"
7. 蜂蜜パイ "Hachimitsu pai" "Honey Pie"
8. バースデイ・ガール "Bāsudei gāru" "Birthday Girl"
9. カンガルー日和 "Kangarū-biyori" "A Perfect Day for Kangaroos"
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Haruki Murakami Short Stories Collection 村上春樹
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Kafka on the Shore (Audiobook) by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
Kafka on the Shore (Audiobook)
# Author: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Publisher: Naxos of America; Unabridged edition (May 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 9626344059
# ISBN-13: 978-9626344057
# Format: Audio MP3 | 981MB
The 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 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Nakata and Kafka's fates keep the reader enthralled to the final pages, and few will complain about the loose threads at the end.
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A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Audio) by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Audio)
# Author: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Audio CD: 8 pages
# Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (July 30, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 9626344148
# ISBN-13: 978-9626344149
# Format: Audio mp3 | 127MB
Immensely popular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published here is a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account of an impossible quest. The narrator is a modern Japanese yuppie: divorced, in a mildly exciting relationship and a much less exciting job as an ad copywriter, he lives unexceptionally until a photograph throws his life into chaos.
The snapshot, which he uses to illustrate a newsletter, shows a field of sheep with one unique crossbreed, and the picture is special enough to have attracted the attention of both the nomadic friend who sent it to him and a right-wing Mr. Big who, moribund, wants the source found before he dies. The Boss's henchman, a sleek, scary majordomo, gives the narrator one month to track it down, and the story that ensues is a postmodern detective novel in which dreams, hallucinations and a wild imagination are more important than actual clues. With the help of a fluid, slangy translation, Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent. $30,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Author: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Paperback: 416 pages
# Publisher: Vintage (January 31, 1995)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0679753796
# ISBN-13: 978-0679753797
# Format: Doc | 882KB
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 murder). In his searchings, he encounters a clairvoyant 13-year-old, her misguided parents and a one-armed poet.
All the hallmarks of Murakami's greatness are here: restless and sensitive characters, disturbing shifts into altered reality, silky smooth turns of phrase and a narrative with all the momentum of a roller coaster. If Mishima had ever learned the value of gentleness, this is the sort of page-turner he might have written. Paperback rights to Vintage.
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Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
Pinball, 1973 | Haruki Murakami 村上春樹 | Kodansha (1985) | PDF | 602KB
Pinball, 1973 (1973年のピンボール, 1973-nen no pinbōru) is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami.
All three books in the Trilogy of the Rat have been translated into English, but Pinball, 1973, and Hear The Wind Sing, the first two books in the trilogy, were never widely distributed, and are now out of print. Murakami is alleged to have said that he does not intend for these novels to be published in the United States. Whether or not this is true, both novels are much shorter than those that follow and make up the bulk of his work, and are less evolved stylistically. Because of its limited publication, the
English translation of Pinball, 1973 is the most rare (and the most expensive) novel published by Murakami. The title, 1973-nen no Pinbōru (1973年のピンボール) reflects the title of the well-known Oe Kenzaburo novel, Man'en Gannen no Futtoboru (万延元年のフットボール).
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Author: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Paperback: 624 pages
# Publisher: Vintage; (September 1, 1998)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0679775439
# ISBN-13: 978-0679775430
# Format: Doc | 2.3MB
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight.[Ziddu] Download Link Click Here to Download...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Author: Haruki Murakami
# Paperback: 416 pages
# Publisher: Vintage (March 2, 1993)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0679743464
# ISBN-13: 978-0679743460
# Format: Doc | 1.65MB
The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan's best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami's fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction.
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Murakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 村上春樹
# Author: Haruki Murakami
# Paperback: 480 pages
# Publisher: The Harvill Press; New Ed edition (2001)
# ISBN-10: 1860468187
# ISBN-13: 978-1860468186
# Format: PDF | 848KB
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
The novel is a nostalgic story of loss and sexuality. The story's protagonist and narrator is Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a freshman university student living in Tokyo. Through Toru's reminiscences we see him develop relationships with two very different women — the beautiful yet emotionally troubled Naoko, and the outgoing, lively Midori.
The novel is set in Tokyo during the late 1960s, a time when Japanese students, like those of many other nations, were protesting against the established order. While it serves as the backdrop against which the events of the novel unfold, Murakami (through the eyes of Toru and Midori) portrays the student movement as largely weak-willed and hypocritical.
Norwegian Wood was hugely popular with Japanese youth and made Murakami somewhat of a superstar in his native country (apparently much to his dismay at the time). In translation it is also one of the most-read Japanese novels in the Western Hemisphere.
Despite its mainstream popularity in Japan, Murakami's contemporary readership saw Norwegian Wood as an unwelcome departure[citation needed] from his by-then established style of energetic prose flavored with the unexpected and supernatural (as exemplified by Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, released two years earlier). Yet, as translator Jay Rubin observes in the translator's note to the 2000 English edition, Norwegian Wood retains much of the complexity and symbolism characteristic of Murakami's work and is thus "by no means just a love story."
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