Absolutely on Music - Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Absolutely on Music - Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music, Murakami

Absolutely on Music: Conversations (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former

Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (Rubin Jay)(Paperback)

As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kindsjazz, classical, folk, rockand has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music

Killing Commendatore (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose. 'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Men Without Women - Stories (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all

Dance Dance Dance (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist

Sputnik Sweetheart (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about

Underground (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. This title features the author's interviews with the victims to tried and established precisely what happened on the subway that day

Wild Sheep Chase - Special 3D Edition (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big

Birthday Stories - Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a

Wind/ Pinball - Two Novels (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are the author's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. In this title, the rat goes on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had enjoyed playing years earlier: the

Norwegian Wood (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

'A deeply troubling yet poetically beautiful story' (Marie Claire) '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

Elephant Vanishes (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

A collection that features such stories as: When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden;

Norwegian Wood (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

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

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine', and Oumi, ‘blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, ‘white root', and Kurono, ‘black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no

Wild Sheep Chase (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Features a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor, and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish

After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned

Conversations with McCartney (Noyer Paul Du)(Paperback / softback)

An intimate portrayal of one of the most famous men in music, Sir Paul

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of

After the Quake (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Features such characters as: Satsuki who has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake who left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away; and, fourteen-year-old Sala who has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is

Desire - Vintage Minis (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In this book, five weird tales unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the

After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be