Bücher von Haruki Murakami

Hajime lebt so wie Millionen Japaner: in geordneten Verhältnissen, geschäftlich erfolgreich. Er betreibt einen Jazzclub in einem schicken Viertel von Tokio, ist verheirat und hat zwei Töchter. Da tritt eines Abends Shimamoto an die Bar, seine Jugendliebe, mit der er einst ganz in die Welt der Musik versunken ist. Wie eine Halluzination erscheint sie immer ganz geheimnisumwoben an regnerischen Abenden und rührt mit ihrem bezaubernden Lächeln verloren geglaubte Saiten in Hajime an. Langsam zieht sie ihn aus seiner so perfekt erscheinenden Welt, bis er schließlich bereit ist, alles für sie zu opfern. "Alles ist möglich bei Haruki Murakami. Seine Bücher sind eine ,gelungene Mischung aus Zen und Coca-Cola' hat einmal ein Rezensent geschrieben. Hier sind es Jazz und Cocktails, die das westliche Flair bringen. Und wenn man bei Zen an die Kunst des Bogenschießens denkt, dann geht Murakami noch einen Schritt darüber hinaus. Seine Kunst besteht nicht nur darin, ins Schwarze zu treffen, sondern den Pfeil so abzuschießen, dass er in der Luft bleibt." Die Welt

In Japan nennen ihn konservative Kritiker und Schriftstellerkollegen "batakusai - nach Butter stinkender Wessi", die anderen halten ihn für den Literaturnobelpreisträger der Zukunft. Haruki Murakami polarisiert mit seinen Geschichten und Romanen. Wie seine Helden entzieht er sich der anonymen Masse. Seine Romanfiguren werden in der japanischen Gesellschaft, in der angepasstes Verhalten von existentieller Bedeutung ist, als einsame Wölfe gebrandmarkt. Der 30-jährige Toru Okada in "Mister Aufziehvogel" steigt aus einer Anwaltskanzlei aus und gerät bei der Suche nach seinem Kater mitten in Tokio in eine Traumwelt, in der ihn erotische Verlockungen, aber auch bösartige Intrigen erwarten. Der Brunnen, der Toru den Einstieg in die geheimnisvolle Unterwelt gewährt, ist Zugang zu Vergangenem und Verdrängtem.

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory... all with a signature Murakami twist.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit. In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts--including gems from the Springsteen on Broadway show in NYC, to the Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story "Tony Takitani." Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami's multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.

';Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers.' Barack ObamaAcross 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 lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka's Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers.Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

';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 one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.' The New York Times Book ReviewThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 ';Q is for ';question mark.' A world that bears a question.' Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.