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As Toru's plane lands in Hamburg, he reflects back 19 years on his life as a young college student in the late 1960s, and the novel is one very long flashback to that time. Entering College, Toru is a quiet, serious. and--like his classmates--fairly alienated young college student in Tokyo. He... (learn more about this book)
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... (learn more about this book)
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... (learn more about this book)
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters—Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into... (learn more about this book)
This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labyrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A... (learn more about this book)
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A... (learn more about this book)
Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on the Shore —“daringly original,” wrote Steven Moore in The Washington Post Book World, “and compulsively readable”—comes a collection that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his... (learn more about this book)
Battle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youth violence, is one of Japan's best-selling--and most controversial--novels. As part of a ruthless program by the totalitarian government, ninth-grade students are taken to a small, isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons.... (learn more about this book)
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an... (learn more about this book)
The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection "after the quake" (yes, all lower-case) are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are... (learn more about this book)