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Informationen zum Autor Haruki Murakami Klappentext In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers¿ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami¿s unique and addictive fictional universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami¿s place as one of the world¿s most acclaimed and well-loved writers. Zusammenfassung The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting. ' 1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre.' Independent on Sunday ‘Murakami's magnum opus’ Japan Times ‘Vi brating with wit, intellect and ambition’ The Times ...

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Philip Gabriel (Translation), Jay Rubin (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2012
• EAN: 9780099578079
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957807-9
• No. of pages: 1328
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 58 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; 1Q84; 1 Q84; 122 POCHE; 1Q84; 1 Q84
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Japan, Science Fiction, FICTION / Historical / General, Fantasy Romance, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Tokyo, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Romance / Science Fiction, Myth & legend told as fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Dystopian and utopian fiction