Haruki Murakami

A Japanese novel on a married businessman who has an affair with the girl of his youth. Hajime's relationship with Shimamoto had always been chaste, now they both make up for it--25 years later. By the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoológico, un abogado desempleado que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un McDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso... Los protagonistas de todos los relatos...

"Su vida gira alrededor de la rutina: el cuidado de su casa, de su marido y de su hijo. Una noche, tal como ya le habia ocurrido en sus años universitarios, es incapaz de dormir. Hoy, ya lleva diecisiete dias sin dormir. En la oscuridad de su casa, ha comenzado a disfrutar de una segunda vida: redescubre la literatura, consigue huir de la cotidianeidad y descubre la alegria de vivir. Pero poco a poco su sensación del tiempo se desvanece y la liberacion...

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their...

The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...

An ode to Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who finds she is in an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.

In Chinese.

Everything here seems to have one thing in common, that they all "want to be spoken." Haruki Murakami! "The so-called death is a very special event. I often think that a large part of a person's life is the energy or the sense of loss brought about by the death of others, or something like that. But she's so defenseless about these things, that's it." Artfully selected between fact and fiction, Haruki Murakami's eight sketches. It's a lot like a carousel....