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Readers love LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR:***** 'This book has become one of my favourite Japanese literature reads of all time .

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street Journal The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. 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.

Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more. Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners -- one humble, one cheery, one ill-tempered -- Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes? Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling -- and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one's purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby -- Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "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 Obama). 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 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.

A Nagoya, ils étaient cinq amis, inséparables. L'un, Akamatsu, était surnommé Rouge ; Omi était Bleu ; Shirane était Blanche et Kurono, Noire. Tsukuru Tazaki, lui, était sans couleur. Puis Tsukuru a gagné Tokyo. Un jour, ils lui ont signifié qu'ils ne voulaient plus jamais le voir. Sans raison. Pendant seize ans, celui qui est devenu architecte a vécu séparé du monde. Avant de rencontrer Sara. Pour vivre cet amour, Tsukuru devra entamer son pèlerinage et confronter le passé pour comprendre ce qui a brisé le cercle.

Sous le double scintillement de 1084, le temps s'accélère et les vérités se confondent. La voix du détective Ushikawa s'invite, oscillant entre révélation et menace, sur la trace d'Aomamé et Tengo. D'un reflet à l'autre, dans la clairvoyance hypnotique de ce troisième volet, le passé s'apprête à livrer son chaos au seuil d'un nouveau rêve...

Vol. 2: book three translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

Le 1er avril 1978, Murakami décide de vendre son club de jazz pour écrire un roman. Assis à sa table, il fume soixante cigarettes par jour et commence à prendre du poids. S'impose alors la nécessité d'une discipline. La course à pied lui permet de cultiver sa patience, sa persévérance. Courir devient une métaphore de son travail d'écrivain. Journal, essai, au fil de confidences inédites, Murakami nous livre une méditation lumineuse sur la vie, qui, comme la course, ne tire pas son sens de sa fin inéluctable.

Hajime a connu pour la première fois l'amour en compagnie de la douce Shimamoto-San. Séparés par la vie, il n'a pourtant jamais oublié. Aujourd'hui, à l'aube de la quarantaine, Hajime est devenu un homme ordinaire et s'est construit une vie agréable entre sa famille et un métier qui lui plaît. Ce fragile équilibre résistera-t-il à ses retrouvailles avec Shimamoto-San ?