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"Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles."
Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.
In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.
Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in
the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it
sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep
it safe, you never know when you might need it. In Kawakami's super
short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it
should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's
house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with
strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to
channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one
docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a
bitter rivalry to the death. Small but great, you'll find great
delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.
DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD DRIVE MY
CAR, THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM A dazzling Sunday Times
bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved
internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. Across seven tales,
Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the
lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here
are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious
women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories
that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humour that has
defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has
crafted another contemporary classic. 'Supremely enjoyable,
philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short
stories...Murakami has a marvelous understanding of youth and age'
Observer 'Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best' Financial Times
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of
storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally
best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being
a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society;
his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of
creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.
Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets
his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be
fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.
'An insightful collection of essays on his work and methods... You
end this collection of beautiful essays vowing to never let life,
or writing, get so complicated again' Guardian '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' New York Times
Book Review 'A fascinating glimpse of the peculiar writerly life'
Sunday Times ** A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE
YEAR**
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Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami; Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
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Dragon Palace
Hiromi Kawakami; Translated by Ted Goossen
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Novelist as a Vocation (Hardcover)
Haruki Murakami; Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
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For readers who want to be introduced to exciting contemporary
Japanese writers, especially women (Mieko Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda,
and more). MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology
that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume
3 celebrates CROSSINGS: Transitioning Out of the Pandemic, we are
inspired by stories of transformation and the joyful play between
Japanese and Western literatures. MONKEY offers short fiction and
poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki Murakami, Hiromi
Kawakami, and Aoko Matsuda; a graphic narrative by Satoshi
Kitamura; and contributions from Stuart Dybek and Matthew Sharpe.
MONKEY New Writing from Japan showcases the best of contemporary
Japanese literature. This first issue celebrates food and was
published during the first year of the pandemic. It includes short
fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami, Haruki
Murakami, Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and Kyohei
Sakaguchi; new translations of modern classics; graphic narratives
by Satoshi Kitamura and Jon Klassen; and contributions from
American writers such as Steven Millhauser and Barry Yourgrau.
Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. 'If you're the sort of
guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock
in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.'
Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest
novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend,
known only by his nickname, the Rat. In Hear the Wind Sing the
narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his
time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening
to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept
with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers.
Three years later, in Pinball, 1973, he has moved to Tokyo to work
as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls, but the
Rat has remained behind, despite his efforts to leave both the town
and his girlfriend. The narrator finds himself haunted by memories
of his own doomed relationship but also, more bizarrely, by his
short-lived obsession with playing pinball in J's Bar. This sends
him on a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he had
enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship.
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 boy's brains. How will
he escape? 'The best novelist on the planet' Observer
MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases
the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Volume 2 celebrates
TRAVEL -- we may not be able to travel much during this second year
of the pandemic, but we can travel in our imaginations. MONKEY
offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Mieko Kawakami,
Haruki Murakami, Hideo Furukawa, Hiromi Kawakami, Aoko Matsuda, and
Kyohei Sakaguchi; new translations of modern classics; a graphic
narrative by Satoshi Kitamura; and contributions from American
writers such as Brian Evenson and Laird Hunt.
Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English
language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel'
tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is
a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation:
from his own familial reunion, to the universal need to reconcile
ourselves to the inevitability of ageing, loss and death.
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