Murakami

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• "No gleaming, functional Starbucks for me—my coffee shop was untouched by time, a back-alley spot run by a man on the cusp of old age who served a jet-black, muddy brew in a cup that weighed a ton." -- Murakami

• Haruki Murakami masterfully blends American and Japanese cultures in his stories, creating an intriguing concoction that seems both familiar and foreign. He crafts a unique literary atmosphere by infusing American elements such as jazz, Western literature, and popular culture with the mystique and depth inherent in Japanese tradition.

• Checklist

  • Fiction

    • 1979 — Hear the Wind Sing (Rat Triology 1)

    • 1980 — Pinball, 1973 (Rat Triology 2)

    • 1982 — A Wild Sheep Chase (Rat Triology 3)

    • 1985 — Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    • 1987 — Norwegian Wood

    • 1988 — Dance Dance Dance (Post Rat)

    • 1992 — South of the Border, West of the Sun

    • 1995 — The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    • 1999 - Sputnik Sweetheart (PTBR)

    • 2002 — Kafka on the Shore

    • 2004 — After Dark

    • 2008 - Strange Library

    • 2010 — 1Q84 (PTBR)

    • 2013 — Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

    • 2017 — Killing Commendatore

  • Short Stories

    • 2000 - After the Quake

    • 2005 - The Elephant Vanishes (PTBR)

    • 2009 - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    • 2014 - Men Without Woman (PTBR)

    • 2021 - First Person Singular: Stories

  • Non Fiction

    • 1997 - Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

    • 2007 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running