Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds,the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life,spent cooking,reading,listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table,are turned inside out. He embarks on a bizarre journey,guided by a succession of characters,each with a tale to tell.'Mesmerising,surreal,this really is the work of a true original'The Times VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS series - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784875411Number of pages: 624Weight: 534 gDimensions: 190 x 135 x 44 mm
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Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing,it is impossible to put downVisionary...a bold and generous bookCritics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver,Raymond Chandler,Arthur C. Clarke,Don DeLillo,Philip K. Dick,Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an originalMurakami writes of contemporary Japan,urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery,and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics,dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic workMesmerising,surreal,this really is the work of a true original
Haruki Murakami
Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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