Haruki Murakami

This is the English version of a novel originally published in Japan in three hardcover volumes. The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 and a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eight Four. The letter Q and the Japanese number 9 are homophones which are used in Japanese wordplay. It is …

A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the …

In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with the catastrophe but the wider seismic effect it had on the emotional lives of people many …