V románu nejvýznamnějšího japonského spisovatele současnosti se skrývá fantastický, romantický i tragický milostný příběh. Čtenář však „neunikne“ směsici japonských reálií, psychologickým portrétům hrdinů ani scénám vášně a nespoutaného sexu. Román vyšel japonsky r. 1987, byl přeložen do 36 jazyků a celkově se ho prodalo přes 9 milionů výtisků.
Cukuru Tazaki byl na střední škole jedním z pěti členů party, která ho ze dne na den vyloučila ze svého středu, aniž mu někdo z jeho kamarádů řekl proč. Tazaki utrpěl ztrátou přátel duševní otřes a zabýval se dokonce i myšlenkou na sebevraždu. Dlouhých 35 let poté přiměje přítelkyně Sára Tazakiho, aby vyhledal své bývalé kamarády a získal odpověď na otázku: PROČ? Ani v tomto díle autor své
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 the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. The
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself
Haruki Murakami je jedným z najznámejších súčasných japonských autorov, jeho knihy vychádzajú na celom svete. Je nositeľom viacerých významných literárnych cien a jedným z dlhodobých čakateľov na Nobelovu cenu za literatúru. V autorovom trinástom románe sa naplno prejavuje jeho láska k detektívnemu žánru a zároveň snaha o návrat k realistickejšiemu obdobiu vlastnej tvorby. Tridsaťšesťročný Cukuru
Udalosti v Tóruho živote naberú rýchly spád. Mei Kasaharová mu napíše list z neznámeho miesta, v ktorom ho dôrazne upozorňuje na článok v istom bulvárnom denníku, kde sa píše o tajomnom majiteľovi domu na opustenej parcele poznačenej ľudským nešťastím. Tóru stále hľadá Kumiko, zbližuje sa s ďalšou prapodivnou dvojicou, a do jeho života čoraz nevyberanejšími spôsobmi vstupuje jeho švagor Naboru
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting.
Druhý diel trilógie Kronika vtáčika na kľúčik zachytáva udalosti obdobia štyroch mesiacov po zmiznutí Tóruho manželky Kumiko. Tá sa jedného rána ako obyčajne vydá do práce a nevráti sa domov. Podľa všetkého opustila manžela kvôli inému mužovi, Tóru si však takýto koniec ich na pohľad harmonického vzťahu nedokáže vysvetliť. V zúfalstve ho mimovoľne inšpiruje motív studne, ktorý sa v jeho živote
Prvý diel trilógie v súčasnosti najčítanejšieho japonského autora, ktorá bola v roku 1996 vyznamenaná prestížnou Cenou denníka Jomiuri za najlepší román roka. Hrdina románu Tóru Okada rozpráva udalosti, ktoré ho postihujú od chvíle, ako po šiestich rokoch práce v advokátskej kancelárii podal výpoveď, aby získal čas nájsť si svoje životné poslanie. So súhlasom manželky Kumiko, úspešnej redaktorky
Kdo zná Norské dřevo, bude potěšen, kdo jej nezná, bude překvapen a neodolá. O románu se dá hovořit jako o kronice neopětované touhy stejně jako o melancholické love story. Dílo má opět tři hlavní postavy: 24letý učitel z Tokia označovaný jako K. a zároveň vypravěč; jeho přítelkyně Fialka, která chce být spisovatelkou a zbožňuje Jacka Kerouacka; Mjú, femme-fatale a společensky poměrně vysoce
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on exquisite crab while on holiday; a man follows
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 and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they've been acquainted through
A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story `Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning* 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
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one
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 mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance
A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. 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
Haruki Murakami's first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. 'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes
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 down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world.Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift