尋找漩渦貓的方法

by Haruki Murakami, 村上春樹, 安西水丸 (Illustrator)

收在這裡的文章，是村上春樹從1993年夏天到1995年夏天住在美國麻州的劍橋（與波士頓相連），並在鄰近的Tufts大學授課的生活剪影。在那之前，村上住在普林斯頓時的隨筆，已經整理在《終於悲哀的外國語》一書中了，因此本書就成為《終於悲哀的外國語》的續集。而且，因為當時村上正在寫長篇小說，因此這本書就想輕鬆一點來寫。

Genres: Literature, Fiction

248 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.

Reviews

[Sung-Gi Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them."

[Mia Zhou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Murakami wrote about his expat life in U.S.

This book brought back the lovely rosey memory that I have with Cambridge, Massachusetts. I can relate so much about his daily emotions - those ups and downs living abroad and how he turned those into life’s little gems.

[Kristal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am willing to read everything he writes even if he decides to go for writing user manual

[Nao · Rating 4 out of 5]

セックスしてから寿司、上等だと思います。寿司が食べたい

[Francis Hong · Rating 4 out of 5]

阿，真的很喜歡看村上春樹的書。喜歡村上春樹的原因：因為他總是可以一本正經的講一堆幹話，認真想一些根本是小朋友才會亂想的事情。看他的散文是如此，看小說有時候更不得了。這個腦子不知道在想什麼的傢伙，人物設定有時根本模糊的要命，全部都像是村上本人自己到處塞自己的碎片，還包裝成人物的口吻，嗯，失敗地。

所以很好笑，看的時候無比開心。

[Slow Man · Rating 4 out of 5]

感覺美好的