Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the limelight. Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan’s best-known novelist abroad. Nine novels, three short story collections and one work of non-fiction are currently available in English translation.

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1Q84 Book 3 Haruki Murakami Inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , 1Q84 is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction - both a thriller and a moving love-story . It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered. Book Three of... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/10/2011 Lovereading Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)

1Q84 Books 1 and 2 Haruki Murakami In order to reflect the experience of 1Q84's first readers, Harvill Secker is publishing Books One and Two in one beautifully designed volume and Book Three in a separate edition. A long-awaited treat for his fans, 1Q84 is also a... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/10/2011 Lovereading Price: £15.00 - Saving £5.00 (25%)

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami ‘Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down’ Daily Telegraph Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Ten books down the line and suddenly the critics are taking note of this exceptional writer. Surreal, highly imaginative and gloriously inventive, this follows the very strange journeys of two remarkable characters. You’ve got to read him to appreciate there... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2005 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Trailed as his most important book for 10 years follows the mysteriously intertwined lives of Kafka Tamura a 15 year old runaway and Nakata a tracker of lost cats Format: Hardback - Released: 06/01/2005 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)