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Description

Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean... read more

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First Sentence

THE elevator continued its impossible slow ascent.

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  1. Haruki Murakami (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
 

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