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

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

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

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life,

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

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

A 'dreamlike and compelling' tour de force (Chicago Tribune)--an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru

Kafka on the Shore (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world's greatest storytellers comes 'an insistently metaphysical mind-bender' (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka

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

Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and

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

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

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

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

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

South of the Border, West of the Sun (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback / softback)

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, Hajime and Shimamoto had been childhood sweethearts. The two eventually lost touch but now, in their thirties, they meet up again. Hajime, now a father and husband, finds himself catapulted into the past, risking all that he has in the present

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

Dance Dance Dance (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

Dance Dance Dance--a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase--is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami's Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami's nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a

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;

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

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