Though literary scholars typically point to novels by Latin American authors when discussing magical realism books, Haruki Murakami himself points out the connection between such tales and Asian ...

Haruki Murakami’s new novel ... The narrator calls the author’s work “ordinary” rather than “magical” realism, because “in the world he inhabits the real and the unreal coexist ...

If you're into Japanese literature but feel it's time to look beyond Haruki Murakami, here are five authors waiting to be your next favourite ...

Haruki Murakami, the Japanese master of magical realism, has been enchanting the literary world for 45 years. Read on to discover five novels that will take you into his world of talking cats ...

My first exposure to magical realism was reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Drawn into a world where tigers lived on boats with boys and trees bore fruit with t ...

Their romance, depicted in the opening section of Haruki Murakami’s 15th novel ... this kind of writing sometimes is called “magical realism”, an unsatisfactory and often dismissive term ...