Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (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

Out - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Kirino Natsuo)(Paperback / softback)

Makioka Sisters - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Tanizaki Junichiro)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

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

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball (Murakami Haruki)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at

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

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

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;

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

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

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

Housekeeper and the Professor - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Ogawa Yoko)(Paperback / softback)

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations

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

Under The Net - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Sea, The Sea - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)