A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the...

"Sputnik Sweetheart" von Haruki Murakami erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Lehrers K, der heimlich in seine beste Freundin Sumire verliebt ist. Sumire ist eine aufstrebende Schriftstellerin, exzentrisch und voller Träume, aber sie...

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers¿ award and...

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the...

"Sputnik Sweetheart" von Haruki Murakami erzählt die Geschichte von K, einem Grundschullehrer, der in seine beste Freundin Sumire verliebt ist. Sumire ist eine angehende Schriftstellerin und lebt ein unkonventionelles Leben. Sie...

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of...

L'incolore Tsukuru Tazaki et ses années de pèlerinage

Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love.K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal...

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to...

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this...

"A Wild Sheep Chase" ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Haruki Murakami, der in der englischen Übersetzung von Alfred Birnbaum vorliegt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um einen namenlosen Protagonisten, der in Tokio lebt und sich in einem...

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire...