Haruki Murakami Collection 3 Books Set

by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Collection 3 Books Set (Men Without Women, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Norwegian Wood)

Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

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

[Nadim Penser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second time read this, though this time with more presence of mind. So enjoyed it so much. Each short story unlayering, onion-like, in such a simply expressed yet captivating way. Each with the typical Murakami strange / odd / surreal touch, leaving many questions.

[Madara Kalpina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vientulība un mīlestība.

[Nirmal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just read one part tamil translation. Which resulted in liking for the author
Wish to read this collection in future

[Nouf · Rating 3 out of 5]

First read for the writer . I believe I like his way of writing . Easy & simple book that describes the loss of the women in 7 men lives and how does that affected their emotions .

[SÉLÉNOPHILÉ]

Un livre magnifique et émouvant.

[Gabrielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

One day we shall read a Murakami book and be in suspicious suspense the whole time because of the lack of boners and then be pleasantly surprised when we get to the end because, fantastic, there were indeed no mention of boners, but regretfully, for me, today is not that day.

I enjoyed "Yesterday" and "Kino" most.

(I wrote this review on 16 March 2022 but accidentally left it as a comment. Just putting it here to immortalise.)