Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£8.99
Author:
Haruki Murakami
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099448570
£8.99
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EAN: 9780099448570
Published: 4 Oct 2012
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch.
Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.
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A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original
- Guardian
This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
- Independent on Sunday
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
