TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami has gripped fans around the world with complex, surrealist tales such as "Kafka on the Shore." Now, his first novel in five years, ...

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Haruki Murakami may be the world’s most popular working literary author. And there is absolutely no logical reason for this. He’s not an especially nimble writer, and you’d be hard-pressed to pick out ...

Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Murakami to return to his homeland, whose conformism he rejected, to examine it closely. This led to the ...

Haruki Murakami is affectionately known as the warmhearted Japanese grandfather of hipster literature. His novels and short stories are filled with the literary fantastic, protagonists who find ...

Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s latest book, 1Q84, has become a blockbuster hit in the author’s native country, but the English edition is still forthcoming. As a preview, Knopf has released images ...

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As we roll into the final week of sheer torture before 1Q84, Haruki Murakami’s 944 page tome about shifting reality in 1984 Japan, there is good news on the Norwegian Wood front. After a year of ...

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