Haruki Murakami (Author, Introducer)
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.
Murakami fans will no doubt delight in this new publication. For
newcomers, these early works are an excellent introduction to a
writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists
of his generation
*Observer*
Murakami’s way of making emotionally resonant images and symbols
bump around on the page, and in one’s mind, remains fresh,
miraculously, more than 35 years on
*Evening Standard*
Wind/Pinball is a fresh, heart-warming dose of the Japanese
master
*Economist*
To read a Murakami book is to feel comforted by the familiarity and
predictability of its strangeness. These are Murakami’s two
earliest novels and so, like archaeological artefacts, they detail
the early construction of his now-famous style.
*The Times Literary Supplement*
quintessential Murakami… an excellent introduction to a writer who
has since become one of the most influential novelists of his
generation
*Hannah Beckerman*
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