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  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.  Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in... (more)
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  Norwegian Wood

  by Haruki Murakami

  Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into... (more)
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  Kafka on the Shore

  by Haruki Murakami

  With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to... (more)
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  After Dark

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are... (more)
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  Sputnik Sweetheart

  by Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any... (more)
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  Trilogy of the Rat: Book 3

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a... (more)
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  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.
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  Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining.... (more)
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  South of the Border, West of the Sun

  by Haruki Murakami

  In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an... (more)
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  Dance Dance Dance

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World.
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  after the quake

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  by Haruki Murakami

  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 even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman. An electronics salesman who has... (more)
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  The Elephant Vanishes

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  by Haruki Murakami

  These are beautifully written stories, often funny, always moving."--Chicago Tribune With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a... (more)
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  1Q84: Book 1

  1Q84 Book 1

  by Haruki Murakami

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  1Q84: Book 3

  1Q84 Book 3

  by Haruki Murakami

  A las voces de Aomame y de Tengo se suma, en este tercer volumen de la novela 1Q84, la de un nuevo personaje, un hombre llamado Ushikawa, que trabaja como detective. Su ultima mision se la habia encargado Vanguardia, el misterioso culto religioso: consistio en comprobar si Aomame era digna de confianza para trabajar para el lider. Ushikawa dio el visto bueno a la joven, pero esta los traiciono a todos, cometio un... (more)
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  Vintage Murakami

  by Haruki Murakami

  Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “Murakami’s bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius. . . . A world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks.” — The Washington Post Book World Not since Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata has a Japanese writer won the ... (more)
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  Trilogy of the Rat: Book 1

  Hear the Wind Sing

  by Haruki Murakami

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  Pinball, 1973

  by Haruki Murakami

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  After Dark

  by Haruki Murakami

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  Underground

  The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

  by Haruki Murakami

  From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood , a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted... (more)
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  Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

  by Haruki Murakami

  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 instructions on the... (more)