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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38983-1 (0-307-38983-9)

"[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is] a graceful explanation of Mr. Murakami's intertwining obsessions, conveyed with his characteristic ability to draw unexpected connections. Running may be a matter of placing one foot in front of the other on the ground, but, as is so often the case... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Written by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel


Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26919-5 (0-307-26919-1)

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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After Dark

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27873-9 (0-307-27873-5)

A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.

Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore... Read more >

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9608-4 (1-4000-9608-1)

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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After Dark

Written by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Jay Rubin


Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26583-8 (0-307-26583-8)

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo 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: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari... Read more >

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Kafka on the Shore

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7927-8 (1-4000-7927-6)

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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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After the Quake
Stories
Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71327-9 (0-375-71327-1)

The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection 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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Sputnik Sweetheart

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72605-7 (0-375-72605-5)

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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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A Wild Sheep Chase
A Novel
Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71894-6 (0-375-71894-X)

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 mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he... Read more >

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Underground
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72580-7 (0-375-72580-6)

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... Read more >

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Norwegian Wood

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70402-4 (0-375-70402-7)

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... Read more >

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South of the Border, West of the Sun
A Novel
Written by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Philip Gabriel


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76739-8 (0-679-76739-8)

Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamoto, herself an only child, was cool and self-possessed, precocious in the extreme. After school these childhood sweethearts would listen to records, hold hands, and talk about their future. Then, despite themselves, in the way peculiar to... Read more >

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A Novel
Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77543-0 (0-679-77543-9)

Haruki Murakami has emerged as the most significant Japanese novelist in decades. And with this hugely ambitious book—a true magnum opus, equal in scope and execution to Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility—he will take his place in the international pantheon of contemporary literature. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the... Read more >

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Dance Dance Dance

Written by Haruki Murakami
Translated by Alfred Birnbaum


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75379-7 (0-679-75379-6)

In this propulsive novel, one of the most brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table. As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence... Read more >

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The Elephant Vanishes
Stories
Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 28, 1994
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75053-6 (0-679-75053-3)

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation he has brought to his internationally acclaimed novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin... Read more >

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Written by Haruki Murakami


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 2, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74346-0 (0-679-74346-4)

In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan's most popular, and controversial, fiction writer hurtles into the consciousness of the West. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the Edge of the World draws readers into a narrative particle accelerator in which a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, Lauren Bacall... Read more >
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