Haruki Murakami (Author)
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in
downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to
him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear
the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the
following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was
Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a
writer into a phenomenon.
In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk
About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's
distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy
and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one
of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
First Person Singular is a patch of intense variety and colour...
Murakami's protagonists tend to be introspective, ordinary men who
find themselves confronted by women and unusual situations. It is
as much their reactions to events as the events themselves that
make his books so brilliant
*Evening Standard*
Mind-bending...touches beautifully on love, solitude, childhood
memories, dreamlike scenarios, invented jazz albums and meditations
on music. In true Murakami tale-telling perfection, it's
devourable
*Irish Daily Mail*
I never tire of re-entering Murakami's world, finding his Proustian
ability to covey the texture of memory exhilarating, and his
fatalistic heroes and their deadpan response to the melodramatic
and the outré soothing
*Daily Telegraph*
These stories are unmistakably Murakami's for the way they traffic
in his signature themes of time and memory, nostalgia and young
love... each one [story] has insights that remain with you long
after they are done
*Sunday Times*
The hallmarks of Haruki Murakami's longer fiction are all here; an
enigmatic eeriness which hints at the supernatural in everyday
situations, a love of jazz and baseball, and the nourishing
nostalgia of pop music
*Daily Mail*
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