Haruki Murakami is the same writer who opened the Land of the Rising Sun to foreign eyes. The brilliant author writes not only about thoughts and feelings, but also about his homeland, people, culture and mentality. His books have become especially popular with us due to their special presentation and the opportunity to look at the mysterious Japan from a new perspective.

If you like Murakami, then site offers top 10 books worth reading.

1. "Listen to the Song of the Wind" (1979)

The famous novel of the writer, which opens the cycle of works "Rats". At the center of the novel is the narrator and his friend Rat, who are working, drinking beer, thinking about the opposite sex and expecting something to happen soon.

Join an epic paintball battle on a real military training ground. Feel like a hero of a movie or game.

2. Pinball 1973

The second novel in the "Rat trilogy", which tells the same story about the narrator, who this time settles with two twins, and his companion Rat. Main character goes to look for an antique slot machine, which he manages to find in an abandoned poultry farm.

3. Sheep Hunt (1982)

The third book in the Rats series, based on the Chinese legend of the transmigration of the soul of a Sheep into a human. In this story, it was the narrator who was chosen by the very person into whom the Sheep would move.

4. "Good day for the kangaroo" (1983)

An excellent collection of short stories, where you will definitely meet Sheep Man, Grebe Bird and even seals who have an unbridled weakness for business cards.

5. "Wonderland without brakes and the End of the World" (1985)

At first, it will seem to you that the two main storylines are unrelated. The even-numbered chapters feature a strange city with high walls that prevent people from escaping. And in the odd ones about a person who is able to use his brain as a key to encryption systems and data processing. This work is considered one of the best creations of Murakami.

6. "Norwegian Forest" (1987)

The protagonist recalls his student years at the University of Tokyo, when two completely different girls were present in his life: the beautiful, but psychologically traumatized Naoko and the bright and lively Midori. There is a film adaptation of the same name in 2010 based on this work.

7. "Dance-dance-dance" (1988)

Mystical detective, which is a continuation of "Sheep Hunt" and the final book in the "Rat Trilogy". According to the author himself, writing this work gave him a lot of pleasure, because he always dreamed of doing it.

8. "My favorite sputnik" (1999)

A novel about a lesbian relationship between student Sumire and a much older woman. Going with her to the Greek islands, Sumire disappears. According to Murakami, this is "a story about anomalous things happening to normal people."

9. "Underground" (1997)

Documentary novel about the 1995 Tokyo subway bombing. The whole story is very structured. 62 eyewitnesses retell the author their view of the event without any literary embellishments.

10. Kafka on the Beach (2002)

This book is included in The New York Times Top 10 Novels of 2005 list. At the center of the story is a teenager who runs away from home to escape his father's dark prophecy. Many plots are intertwined to resolve in one mystical outcome.

Haruki Murakami should not be confused with his namesake Ryu Murakami. It's perfect different people and writers. However, Haruki is much more popular around the world. It is he who is primarily associated with this surname. Murakami is one of the major contemporary postmodernists in literature.

In total, he wrote 14 novels, 12 collections of short stories, one book of children's fairy tales, and five works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into more than 50 languages ​​and have sold millions of copies. Murakami has received many Japanese and international awards, but so far bypasses him, although almost every year he is one of her main favorites.

Murakami is the successor of traditions and its founders like Natsume Soseki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. However, with the filing Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata earned him a reputation as a "European from Japanese literature." Really, Japanese culture and tradition does not play the same role in his books as in the works of the same Kawabata, Yukio Mishima or Kobo Abe.

Murakami grew up heavily influenced by American culture, and his favorite writers have always been Americans. In addition, Haruki has lived in Europe and the United States for many years, which also influenced his work.

For Japanese literature, Murakami's books are a unique example of how a Japanese looks at his homeland through the eyes of a Westerner.

Murakami's books are mostly set in contemporary Japan. Its heroes are people of the era of globalization and mass culture. If you do not take into account Japanese names and titles, the events of Murakami's novels could take place anywhere. Main characteristic his artistic universe - cosmopolitanism. This is largely why his books are so popular all over the world.

What are the features of his work?

1. Almost all books have elements of fantasy and surrealism. So, in the novel "Wonderland without brakes and the End of the World" events take place in a city whose inhabitants do not have shadows, and the narrator reads dreams in the skulls of dead unicorns. Very often, Murakami's books describe completely ordinary people with which extraordinary things happen. According to the writer himself, such a plot (ordinary people in unusual circumstances) is his favorite.

2. Many of Murakami's works are dystopian. The most striking example is the writer's three-volume book " 1Q84", The title of which refers to the classics of the genre - Orwell's novel "1984".

3. Murakami's novels are postmodern works. Whatever serious topic the writer takes on, he will reveal it in an emphatically detached manner, without taking any particular position, but allowing the reader to choose for himself what is more important and closer to him.

4. Music. The writer himself is a great connoisseur of jazz and is known for his unique collection of 40,000 jazz records. By his own admission, Murakami has been listening to jazz for 10 hours a day for many years.

"Norwegian Forest" tells the story of friendship, love, suffering and joys of several Japanese students. An important place in the novel is occupied by the protests of the 60s, when students from all over the world took to the streets and rebelled against the modern order. But main topic novel - and how it affects people.

Kafka on the Beach focuses on two characters: a teenager named Kafka Tamura and an old man named Nakata. Their destinies are connected in a mystical way, both are attached to the other world and live on the edge between reality and space outside of time. This is a typical Murakami mystical novel that raises great amount philosophical themes and questions.

If you choose the most monumental book of the writer, in order to understand all his main ideas and stylistic features from one work, it is worth noting “1Q84”, which in Russian translation has the subtitle “A thousand brides hundred and eighty-four”.

The book tells about two characters - a female fitness club instructor and a math teacher. Both characters represent two different branches of this vast story. The first of them is connected with alternative worlds, and the second is more realistic, but hides a deep subtext.

The main thing in Murakami's book is how the two stories are intertwined and linked together in a single message. This three-volume epic touches on numerous topics, from love and religion to generational conflict and suicide. According to the writer, when creating this "giant novel" he was inspired by Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", whom he considers one of the best works in the history of world literature.

Which Murakami books are undeservedly underrated?

Every writer has books that everyone knows about. And there are those that are either forgotten or known to a very narrow circle of fans. Murakami also has such works. Despite their low popularity, they are no less interesting to read than recognized masterpieces.

The novels " My favorite sputnik"And" Afterdarkness"- things typical of Murakami on the verge of reality and fantasy, but the writer reveals both plots in a very original manner. The first is related to the mysterious disappearance main character in the Greek Islands, while the second unfolds in Tokyo over the course of one night.

A book written in the non-fiction genre is also little known - a collection of autobiographical essays called " What do I talk about when I talk about running". The title of the collection refers to the work of one of Murakami's favorite writers, Raymond Carver, whose work "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" was translated by Haruki from English into Japanese.

The work represents the writer's memoirs about his studies, which, in addition to literature and jazz, is his main hobby. According to Haruka, "writing sincerely about running means writing sincerely about yourself."

Why read Murakami?

Murakami is an author who in all his books speaks either about the present or about the future of mankind. And he does it as accurately as possible. Some of his books can be regarded as warnings to society. They should be read in order not to make those mistakes that the Japanese describes.

His books are read by millions of people around the world, so Murakami's work is truly global and influential.

In addition, much in the works of the author is capable of truly expanding human consciousness. There is something in his books that can shock, amaze and delight the reader. Murakami - real master words whose style fascinates and delivers real pleasure.

Who can like the work of Murakami?

The heyday of Murakami's work coincided with the growth of his popularity among Russian readers. These events took place in the 1990s. However, unlike many other authors, love for Murakami has not faded. He still remains one of the most widely read foreign authors in Russia.

When Murakami started translating with us, his audience was mostly young people with a lot of imagination and open-mindedness. Now these people, who almost grew up on the books of the Japanese, remain his devoted fans, but the books have new fans.

Murakami is still interesting to young people because he keeps up with the times, and everyone new novel becomes relevant and modern. Therefore, it is never too late to start reading Murakami. All people who live for today and at the same time aspire to the future will definitely like his work.

If you read the annotations of his books, each of them begins with the same phrase: this is the most (original epithet) book of a famous Japanese writer. Yes, and the author of these works bears the titles of the most-most: the most readable writer and the most non-Japanese Japanese.

Japanese names are not too familiar to the Russian-hearing ear. That is why the names of writers are being changed. Kenzaburo Oe becomes Underfence Oi, Abe Kobo is Aby Kogo. Mishima and Kawabata did not escape this fate, but the "translations" of their names are long and obscene. And only "Haruki Murakami" is unlikely to be remade - it already has roots familiar from childhood.

But they don't read it because of them! Why? Usually, critics, weighed down by a load of thousands of volumes of world classics, like to dismantle a book piece by piece. They joyfully pounce on the text and merrily tear it to shreds, firmly pinning a label to each piece: this is the influence of Joyce, this is taken from Marquez, here - Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hemingway and so on. The method is great, although pointless. Almost in any book you can find allusions, alleles and parallels to the classics and delve into them endlessly. This way of text analysis can be called "relationship analysis".

A fundamentally different approach is the analysis of mutual understanding. The writer somehow interacts with the world, trying to understand it. And he transfers this understanding to paper. Tracking the moments, comparing them with each other and with your own point of view - the task, in my opinion, is very exciting. She is the subject of Murakami's books. He himself calls his work "sushi noir" - black sushi. Rancid, blackened rice balls. This is probably why Murakami is read, spit, but still read.

In his interviews, he says that he did not want to become popular. What does he write about people who have scattered their goals, lost their values. What is today's youth.

Weird. It seems to me that it is the youth of today who knows exactly what they want. And those who do not know read Murakami. And they are surprised to understand that they live like his heroes - thoughtlessly and aimlessly. This is what unites them into a kind of virtual sect. And if earlier their heads were pristine, now Murakami has settled there. There is something to talk about, something to discuss, but nothing more. Is not it?

Murakami is full of physiological descriptions. I got up, went, reached... I sat down, ate, went again... The protagonist does not do anything significant for most of the story. But we swallow it, not understanding what prevents us from putting off reading or looking at the end.

It's simple: this text is a description of dynamic meditation. The hero thinks not only with the help of thoughts, but also with the help of body movements. Raised in a Zen culture, Murakami, who easily ran a marathon distance, knows the price of movement. He understands how important it is sometimes to rest a head swollen from thoughts and think with the body. Note that almost every important decision Murakami's heroes do just that.

The next moment is always a mystery. The hero necessarily does not understand something: the actions of others, their words, reactions. The circumstances in which the hero finds himself are mysterious. Again following Zen practices, Murakami explores the cause-and-effect relationships here. And the reason is sure to appear. Sometimes it is predictable, sometimes it is not, but it also always has its own reason. Murakami lets his hero swim through this sea of ​​reasons until he finds the very best - the notorious beginning of everything. The beginning, which no one needs and is no longer interesting.

Murakami is a master at describing the search for an uninteresting goal in an interesting way. Here again Zen shines through all the cracks: the path is everything, the goal is nothing.

And his characters themselves are interesting, by and large, only to themselves and their close circle. And even then the author all the time pretends that the hero himself is not particularly interesting either. And when a character suddenly performs a strange act - this is just an excuse to reflect on the topic: how badly I know myself ... Do not believe it! He knows everything. But you are not recognized.

In fact, Murakami's characters are internally whole. And this is a sign of remarkable skill. But this integrity is presented through the perception of other characters: it is a kind of mosaic, which is the task of the reader to put together. And readers love it and with delight pounce on the toy slipped by the author, collecting several similar semantic "puzzles" for the book.

And here it is - a grandiose fiction, because of which Murakami is now read everywhere: he writes about worthless people. People, squeezed by a world they do not understand, who could not achieve something significant, valued by the majority of those around them. The reader, cherishing his unfulfilled ambitions, instantly takes such a hero for "his". And it's especially nice when such a nonentity suddenly turns out to be capable of something more. The prince was hiding in a toad! "That's right, we can do it!" - readers think by inertia and continue to be what they were, not paying attention to how hard and painstakingly the characters of Murakami's books work on themselves.

Another fad Murakami - women. Women for Murakami - the embodiment of mystery. Ladies for him are walking Zen, unknown and inexpressible. They are "Kami" - higher beings, goddesses. You can describe their manifestations, but there is no way to understand them to the level where even a little predictability appears. Murakami intrepidly describes intimate scenes - to the naturalness bordering on pornography. And at the same time, she freezes, holding her breath, talking about the female ... ear! As if it were the most perfect creation of the gods in all respects.

Murakami's music plays constantly. It affects many years of youth, when he was the owner of a jazz cafe. All these countless compositions of the Beatles, Rolligs, Charlie Parker, Elvis Presley and many, many others should, it would seem, create the appropriate mood and color the background of the story. But ... I heard them, he heard them, and the youth brought up on "scooters" and "Brilliant"? Young people who think the Beatles are mastodons and suck?

However, Russian murakamologists went through all his books and compiled a list of the most frequently mentioned compositions. Collected and rolled up on a disk: "Soundtracks to Murakami's books". So now you can read and listen at the same time.

Anyone who has read Murakami... But Murakami?..

Do you know, dear readers, that Murakami is the first Japanese writer who became popular in Russia thanks to the Internet? And to be more precise, thanks to the orientalist Dmitry Kovalenin, who translated the famous "Sheep Hunt" and posted it on his website, where for more than a year (before the appearance of the paper version) this translation was available to everyone? And now a tricky question: did you know that Dmitry Kovalenin is a writer himself? Have you read his works? But didn’t they pay attention to the fact that the style of narration of Kovalenin himself does not differ at all from the style of Murakami translated by him?

I am far from thinking that Murakami does not exist, and that what is is a global literary hoax. But it seems. A Japanese has been writing a book for several years. A Russian has been translating it for several years. A talented translation is the creation of a new text. Remember what the Strugatskys, Mirer, Nora Gal and Igor Mozheiko did. Their translations were literature - unlike the interlinear translations of a legion of other translators. So it is here: Kovalenin created the Russian Murakami, whether we like it or not.

And what Murakami really is, we will never know. Unless we learn Japanese...

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, in the family of a teacher of classical philology. He studied at the Department of Classical Drama at Waseda University and ran a jazz bar in Tokyo. He began writing at the age of 29 and has since published an average of a novel a year, waking up at six in the morning and going to bed at 10 at night. At 33, he quit smoking and started exercising by jogging and swimming daily.

"Composing music and writing novels is a wonderful right given to a person, and at the same time a great duty."

H. Murakami

Leaving Japan for the West, he, who was fluent in English language, for the first time in the history of Japanese literature, began to look at his homeland through the eyes of a European: "... I left for the States for almost 5 years, and suddenly, while living there, quite unexpectedly I wanted to write about Japan and the Japanese. Sometimes about the past, sometimes about It's easier to write about your country when you're far away You can see your country as it is from a distance Before that I didn't really want to write about Japan I just wanted to write about myself and my world "- he recalled in one of his interviews, which he does not really like to give.

"The ultimate goal that I achieve in novels lies in Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov."

H. Murakami

Murakami was one of the first to open the eyes of hundreds of thousands of readers to modern Japan with its alternative youth subculture, not much different from a similar environment in Moscow, New York, London or Istanbul. His hero is a young loafer, preoccupied with finding a girl with unusually shaped ears. He likes to eat thoroughly: he mixes green onions and veal fried with salted plums, adds dried tuna, a mixture of seaweed and shrimp in vinegar, seasons with wasabi horseradish with grated radish, sunflower oil and flavors with stewed potatoes, garlic and finely chopped salami. Without any special purpose, he drives a car around the city and shares burning questions with readers: why is the Japanese Subaru more comfortable than the Italian Maserati, how one-armed invalids cut bread, and by what miracle "fat Boy George became a superstar"? Murakami destroys the usual Japanese values ​​with his work, such as the desire to live in harmony with the outside world, not stand out from the environment and be obsessed with a career. He breaks traditions with pleasure, for which we despise many Japanese, adherents of ancient foundations and "correct" habits.

"I like to waste time. There are so many things in the world that I love - jazz, cats ... Girls, maybe. Books. All this helps me survive."

"Supernatural, incomprehensible phenomena that appear in my novels are a metaphor to the end."

H. Murakami

He is the last romantic, looking with sadness of unfulfilled hopes at the cold muzzle of a revolver in the hand of a mercenary and convinced of the power of good.

"Personally, I enjoy playing sports every day and collecting old jazz records."
H. Murakami "

I belong to the generation of idealists of the 60s. We really believed that the world would be a better place if we tried hard enough. We tried very hard - but in a sense, we still lost. However, I try to carry the feeling of this idealism throughout my life. And I still believe that idealism is capable of doing a lot of good things in the future ... "- likes to repeat the author of many books translated into 20 foreign languages, including Russian.

"What interests me is a kind of living theme of darkness within a person."
H. Murakami

He loves pop culture: the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, horror films, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, detectives - everything that is not recognized by the intellectual community and high-browed aesthetes from enlightened bohemian circles.

"It is possible that at the time of the rapid change of values, what I wrote happened to be to the liking of many readers [in Russia]."
H. Murakami

He is closer in spirit to the guys and girls from noisy disco bars, who fall in love for one day, an hour and remember their hobbies only while rushing on a roaring motorcycle. Maybe that's why in a woman he is more interested in unusual ears than eyes. For he does not want to pretend and remains himself in any situation with by any person. So he fell in love all over the world. This is how they love him in Russia.

Haruki Murakami, during his lifetime, gained the status of a classic of not only Japanese, but also world literature. To this day, he does not know the exact answer to the question of how he decided to become a writer, he claims that he initially believed in his own literary abilities. For Murakami, writing is as natural as breathing.

Childhood and youth

In a relationship personal biography the writer, like a true Japanese, is restrained and evasive. Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Japan, near Kyoto, in the village of Kayako. The male part of the family was engaged in enlightenment in the field of Buddhism. My father taught Japanese language and literature at school. Grandfather - a Buddhist priest - served as rector in the temple. Haruki's childhood was spent in the port city of Kobe. Then came the interest in American and European literature and music.

In 1968, Murakami's name appeared on the list of students at the prestigious Waseda University. Haruki chose to major in Classical Drama. Murakami did not feel any particular craving for reading old scripts and was frankly bored during his studies. However, after graduating from university, he successfully defended his degree in modern drama. As a student, he participated in protests against the Vietnam War.

In 1971, Haruki married Yoko Takahashi, with whom he went to school together. Murakami turned his passion for jazz into business by opening the Peter Cat Jazz Bar in Tokyo in 1974. The institution has been successfully functioning for 7 years. One day, while sitting in the stadium watching a baseball game, Haruki suddenly realized that he could write books. Since then, Murakami has increasingly lingered at the bar after hours, working on the first drafts of future works.

Literature

The first story, "Listen to the Song of the Wind," published in 1979, was awarded the Gunzoshinjin-se Young Japanese Writer Prize and the Noma Prize from the leading literary magazine Bungei. The book is known as the first part of the "Rat Trilogy". Murakami himself, in relation to his first works, was of the opinion that they were weak and unworthy of the attention of foreign readers. What the readers did not agree with, noting the original style of the young writer.

In 1980, the continuation of the trilogy came out - the story "Pinball 1973". Two years later, the final part saw the light - a novel called "Hunting for Sheep." The work was also awarded the Noma Prize. Haruki Murakami's development as a writer began with this work. At this time, Murakami decided to sell the bar and focus on literary work. Writing fees allowed him to travel around Europe and America.

Haruki returned to his homeland only in 1996. But even before leaving, he published four collections of short stories (Slow Boat to China, A Good Day for the Kangaroo, Firefly, Burn the Barn and Other Stories, The Deadly Heat of the Carousel with Horses), a book of fairy tales, The Christmas of a Sheep, and a novel in the fantasy genre "Wonderland without brakes and the End of the World." The novel receives another prestigious literary award - the Junichiro Tanizaki Prize.

Traveling through Greece and Italy inspired Murakami to write the novel "Norwegian Forest". The novel, which brought world fame to the writer, is called by readers and critics the best in Murakami's work. The publication sold two million copies, in Europe and the United States became a cult.

The protagonist talks about his student life in the 60s, when student protests were growing, rock and roll was gaining popularity, and he was dating two girls at once. The novel is narrated in the first person, but the author claimed that it was not autobiographical. It's just that it's convenient for him.

In 1988, Haruki moved to London. There, the writer finished the last pages of the continuation of the "Rat Trilogy" - the novel "Dance, Dance, Dance". In Japan in 1990, another collection of short stories, Teletubbies Strike Back, was published. In 1991, Murakami accepted an offer to teach at Princeton University in the United States. Later he received the degree of associate professor. In Japan, at that time, an eight-volume edition of the writer's works written over the past 10 years was published.

Living in America, Murakami had a desire to talk about his native country and its inhabitants, which he did not like to do before. As Haruki admitted in an interview, only after leaving his homeland can one truly appreciate it from afar. In 1992 Haruki Murakami moved to California where he lectured on modern literature at Howard Taft University. In the writer's homeland, the novel "South of the Border, West of the Sun" arrived in time for the release. The hero of the story, like the author in his youth, is the owner of a jazz bar.

In 1994, the mystical novel Clockwork Bird Chronicles was published in Tokyo, combining different forms and considered the most difficult in the work of Murakami. A year later, a sequel to the novel was released. The year 1995 in Japan will be remembered for the earthquake in Kobe and the gas attack of radicals from Aum Shinrikyo. In 1996, the writer returned to Japan and settled in its capital. Under the impression of the tragic events, Murakami wrote the documentary works "Underground" and "Promised Land".

In 1999, the publication of the novel "My Favorite Sputnik" took place, a year later - a collection of short stories "All God's Children Can Dance". In 2001, the Murakami family settled on the coast, in the village of Oiso, where they still live.

Murakami's works have been translated into 20 languages, including Russian. In 2002, "Wonderland without brakes" was released in Russia, in 2003 the writer himself visited the country. At the same time, in Japan, he published the tenth novel in a row, the two-volume Kafka on the Beach. The novel was awarded the World Fantasy Award (WFA).

Almost every year, Murakami releases a book. In 2005, a collection of short stories "Tokyo Legends" was published. It includes both new stories and those written back in the eighties. In 2007, a kind of memoir called “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” is published. In 2010 the book was translated into Russian.

2009 is significant with the publication of a new trilogy "1Q84". The first two parts of the book sold out on the first day of sale. In the work, Murakami touched upon the themes of religious extremism, discrepancies in the views of different generations, a combination of reality and illusion. The third volume of the essay, published in 2010, also became a bestseller.

With some interruption, released in 2013 philosophical drama"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of wandering". This is a novel about the life of a lonely railway station design engineer. As a child, Tsukuru had friends. But over time, for unknown reasons, friends turned away from him. And only a new girlfriend convinces Tsukuru to find friends and find out the reasons for the breakup. The bestseller has traditionally received enthusiastic responses from fans. modern literature, once again broke the sales record, this time on the Amazon site.

In 2014, a collection of short stories "Men Without Women" was published. The main characters of the novels are strange men and femme fatales, and the main theme is the relationship between them, losses and gains. Haruki Murakami translates to native language works of European authors. Thanks to him, the Japanese met Raymond Carver,. Murakami's translation of The Catcher in the Rye broke sales records for translated literature in Japan in the early 21st century.

Personal life

Haruki Murakami has been married to the same woman for over 40 years. The wife of writer Yoko Takahashi is a singer and actress. There are no children in the family. At 33, Murakami quit smoking, became interested in swimming, baseball, long runs (participates in marathons). Your interest and love for Western culture implemented in several photo albums and guides.

Murakami is known to be a big music lover. The writer published the book Jazz Portraits in two volumes. Essays are literary illustrations to an exhibition of paintings by musicians made by film director and screenwriter Makoto Wada. In the books, Murakami talked about 55 favorite jazz artists. And his own collection of records, according to unverified information, includes more than 40 thousand copies.

Haruki Murakami now

In 2016, the Japanese writer and translator was awarded the Literary Name Award with the wording "For a bold combination of classic storytelling, pop culture, Japanese tradition, fantastic realism and philosophical reflection." Murakami was expected to be awarded and Nobel Prize on literature. But in the end, the award went to the American singer.

The prophecies regarding the writer did not come true and in 2017 another Japanese writer received the award. In February 2017, Haruki Murakami's next novel, The Assassination of the Commander, was published, with an initial circulation of 1 million copies. The book has traditionally caused a stir among the writer's fans.

Bibliography

• 1979 - "Listen to the song of the wind"
• 1982 - "Hunting for sheep"
• 1985 - "Wonderland without brakes and the End of the World"
• 1986 - "Repeated raid on the bakery"
• 1987 - "Norwegian Forest"
• 1992 - "South of the Border, West of the Sun"
• 1996 - "Ghosts of Lexington"
• 2000 - "All God's Children Can Dance"
• 2002 - "Kafka on the Beach"
• 2005 - "Tokyo Legends"
• 2009 - "1Q84 (One thousand brides hundred eighty-four)"
• 2013 - "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and the years of his wanderings"
• 2014 - "Men without women"
• 2017 - "Murder of the Commander"

Quotes

The older a person is, the more things in his life that can no longer be corrected.

A world without love is like the wind outside the window. Don't touch it, don't breathe it in.

I don't like being alone. I just don't make unnecessary acquaintances. In order not to be disappointed in people once again.

Memory warms a person from the inside. And at the same time tear it apart.

Moving efficiently in the wrong direction is even worse than not moving at all.