A Wild Sheep Chase
Title | A Wild Sheep Chase PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307762726 |
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.
Two novels
Title | Two novels PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | |
Pages | 695 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780099507079 |
Two of Murakami's early novels are brought together. Dark, dry and downright weird, 'A Wild Sheep Chase' is the story of a man, a girl, her ears and a very special sheep. 'Dance Dance Dance' is part murder-mystery, part metaphysical speculation.
Wind/Pinball
Title | Wind/Pinball PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2015-08-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385352131 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
Dance Dance Dance
Title | Dance Dance Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-10-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1448103673 |
An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. 'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' Observer
A Wild Haruki Chase
Title | A Wild Haruki Chase PDF eBook |
Author | Kokusai Kōryū Kikin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
For all Haruki Murakami fans, an investigation into the universal themes and global popularity of his work.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Title | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2010-11-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307777693 |
Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
The Strange Library
Title | The Strange Library PDF eBook |
Author | Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | Bond Street Books |
Pages | 89 |
Release | 2014-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385683154 |
Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. "All I did was go to the library to borrow some books." On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boys' brains. How will he escape?