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Aeroplane; Or How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry

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مجموعه ی 5 داستان کوتاه شامل :
مرد هفتم، جایی که ممکن است پیدایش کنیم، بعد از زلزله، یک روز عالی برای کانگوروها و داستان یک خاله بینوا

28 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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Haruki Murakami

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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.

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April 6, 2017
انعدام التيقن من السعادة، الخوف من التغيير، ذكريات الطفولة المهيمنة، خوف من الاعتيادية وشوق للألفة
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December 2, 2023
احساس می‌کنم تمام داستان‌های موراکامی از یه الگوی تکرارشونده‌ی خاصی پیروی می‌کنن
شاید هم چون اخیرا زیاد از موراکامی خوندم، اینطور فکر می‌کنم
ولی چیزی که متوجه شدم اینه که تیکه‌هایی از داستان‌ کوتاه‌های موراکامی، خودشونو توی رمان‌هاش به جا می‌ذارن
مثلا این داستان کوتاه و داستان کوتاه "شهر گربه‌ها" تیکه‌هایی از خودشونو توی سه‌گانه "1Q84" به جا گذاشتن
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August 7, 2017
Đây là chiện "Phi cơ hay là về việc anh tự nói một mình như đọc thơ". Thật là một tựa đề mang đầy chớt thơ.
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May 14, 2017
یکی از آثار بسیار ضعیف ماروکامی
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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
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