Haruki Murakami

From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon....

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface....

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her....

十七歳と十六歳の夏の夕暮れ、きみは川べりに腰を下ろし、〝街〟 について語り出す――それが物語の始まりだった。高い壁と望楼に囲まれた遥か遠くの謎めいた街。そこに“本当のきみ”がいるという。

図書館の奥まった半地下の館長室で、薪ストーブの火を見つめながら子易（こやす）老人は「私」に語りかける。「ここはなにより、失われた心を受け入れる特別な場所でなくてはならない」、と。そんなある日、「私」の前に不思議な少年があらわれる。

A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her....

Cuando nos rodean los muros, la aventura de toda una vida quizá consista en franquearlos. El regreso de Murakami a la novela después de La muerte del...

K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn....

あの日なら、僕はすべてを捨ててしまうことができた。仕事も家庭も金も、何もかもをあっさりと捨ててしまえた。

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls....

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 is the second book in the Trilogy of the Rat series....

一枚の絵が、秘密の扉を開ける……妻と別離し、傷心のまま、海を望む小暗い森の山荘に暮らす孤独な36歳の画家。ある日、緑濃い谷の向こうから謎めいた銀髪の隣人が現れ、主人公に奇妙な事が起き始める。

In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he opens a circle of mysterious circumstances....

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element....

堪えがたいほどの空腹を覚えたある晩、彼女は断言した。「もう一度パン屋を襲うのよ」。それ以外に、学生時代にパン屋を襲撃して以来、僕にかけられた呪いをとく方法はない。

「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation....

ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。