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After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

In After Dark--a gripping novel of late night encounters--Murakami's trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny's when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly evocative classic, now with a new introduction by the author Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a

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

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

Kafka on the Shore (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside

After the Quake (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles. An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package-- and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true

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

First Person Singular: Stories (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

'Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.' --The Wall Street Journal A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book

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

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

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

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the authorKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a

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

Saules aveugles, femme endormie - Haruki Murakami

Conteur hors pair, Haruki Murakami explore dans ces vingt-trois nouvelles délicatement ciselées, une multitude de mondes oscillant perpétuellement entre le réel et le reve. Parmi ces vies suspendues, de troublants portraits : un homme d'affaires hanté par son premier amour, un couple

Blinde Weide, schlafende Frau - Haruki Murakami

Hombres sin mujeres - Haruki Murakami

En su obra más reciente, Haruki Murakami ofrece a los lectores siete relatos en torno al aislamiento y la soledad que preceden o siguen a la relación amorosa: hombres que han perdido a una mujer, o cuya relación ha estado marcada por el desencuentro, asisten inermes al regreso de los fantasmas

First Person Singular: Stories (Murakami Haruki)(Pevná vazba)

Novelist as a Vocation - Haruki Murakami

The Elephant Vanishes (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

In 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 hunger that drive them to hold up a

Spánek - Haruki Murakami - e-kniha

eBook:,„Je to už sedmnáct dní, co nemůžu spát,“ tak začíná povídka Harukiho Murakamiho, jejíž protagonistkou je zdánlivě obyčejná žena v domácnosti. Vlivem různých nečekaných okolností připomíná její noční život výlet do mimosmyslového prostoru. Ve světě,

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

1Q84 (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.'

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

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