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The release of the film tie-in edition of Murakiam's coming-of-age cult classic of love and loss is to coincide with the new major motion picture starring Rinko Kikuchi ('Babel').
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown
Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him
suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the
Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following
year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled
Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood,
published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a
phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many
languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to
Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.
Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a
day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance
running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and
races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records
and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I
Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and
they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing
quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of
imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious
and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant
readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most
acclaimed and well-loved writers.
Norwegian Wood is Japan's The Catcher in the Rye
*Daily Telegraph*
Everyone who reads Norwegian Wood runs out to buy copies for
friends and lovers... Drawing on Fitzgerald, Capote, Chandler and
the Japanese tradition, his books are at once disarmingly direct
and slyly, charmingly evasive. They are playful and melancholy;
full of wrong turns and red herrings, corridors that lead nowhere
and - above all - girls who disappear
*Guardian*
A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks
of Murakami's hand
*The New York Times Book Review*
This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love,
booze and 1960s pop, it's also genuinely emotionally engaging, and
describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows
*Independent on Sunday*
Catches the absorption and giddy rush of adolescent love... It is
also, for all the tragic momentum and the apparently kamikaze
consciousness of many of its characters, often funny and quirkily
observed. Quietly compulsive and finally moving
*Times Literary Supplement*
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