Birthday Girl

Kafka på stranden är en roman som inte liknar någon annan. Haruki Murakami tar avstamp i myten om Oidipus när han skickar ut sin unga huvudperson Kafka Tamura på en resa, på flykt undan sin far och på jakt efter sin mor och syster. Vi får lära känna den åldrade Nakata, som kan tala med […]

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 many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, […]

The ambitious major new novel from this internationally celebrated writer, on the scale of his bestselling 1Q84. The painter’s wife has left him for a younger man. Taking some time away from Tokyo, he starts looking after the empty house of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. Not long after he moves in, a scraping sound […]

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 […]