After Dark (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

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 (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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