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Essential reading for any fan of Murakami's work.

About the Author

Jay Rubin is a professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Injurious to Public Morals- Writers and the Meiji State and Making Sense of Japanese, and he edited Modern Japanese Writers for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and after the quake.

Reviews

Jay Rubin's engaging critical study of Haruki Murakami examines the complex intersection of the Japanese novelist's life...Rubin is a confident guide to this surreal world
*Daily Telegraph*

This genial guide to 'cool' Japanese author Haruki Murakami mimics the playfulness of his fictions...His intuitive 'critique' gets close to the spirit of his subject
*Observer*

a lively and eccentric new critical study
*New York Times*

A magical mystery tour through Murakami's spontaneous, improvised fictional world-Packed with bits of trivia about the author
*Evening Standard*

Jay Rubin's engaging critical study of Haruki Murakami examines the complex intersection of the Japanese novelist's life...Rubin is a confident guide to this surreal world * Daily Telegraph *
This genial guide to 'cool' Japanese author Haruki Murakami mimics the playfulness of his fictions...His intuitive 'critique' gets close to the spirit of his subject * Observer *
a lively and eccentric new critical study * New York Times *
A magical mystery tour through Murakami's spontaneous, improvised fictional world-Packed with bits of trivia about the author * Evening Standard *