Murakami, Haruki

"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the stunning title story. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories all touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist"--Provided by publisher.

"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the stunning title story. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories all touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist"--Provided by publisher.

Volume one of Haruki Murakami's ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.

A collection of six short stories by Haruki Murakami which are based on the Kobe earthquake of 1995.

Tsukuru Tazaki has four best friends at school and all of their names contain a color, but his last name does not. Things only get worse for Tsukuru when his friends announce that they do not want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Tsukuru cannot form intimate connections with anyone, until he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

A select group of people in Japan are impelled into the bizarre pursuit of a super sheep.

Explores the fundamental issues which led to a terrorist attack in which the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo released poisonous gas into the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995.

In a fantastical illustrated novella, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.

A collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami that explores the fantastic and the natural in everyday life.

Nineteen-year-old college student Mari Asai has a series of unusual encounters over the course of a long Tokyo night, while her sister Eri, a fashion model, sleeps.