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The international bestseller. A heart-warming tale about the power of books, for all who love reading them.

The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

Na een mysterieuze nachtmerrie kan een jonge huisvrouw de slaap niet meer vatten.

Někdo, kdo si říká Král, začne přes mobily posílat tajemné SMS-ky žákům jedné třídy. Posílá jim úkoly, které musejí splnit. Kdo je nesplní – zemře. Zpočátku je to čistě legrace, ale jen do chvíle, kdy přijde první smrt. Pak už je to souboj s časem. Odhalí se dřív totožnost Krále, nebo umřou další lidé?

O japonském spisovateli Haruki Murakamim se občas soudí, že se beze zbytku zhlédl v západní literatuře a následně píše „nejaponské“ texty. Pokud ovšem podrobíme rozboru příběhy, které se odehrávají v jeho literárních dílech, musíme podobné soudy odmítnout jako neopodstatněné. Tato publikace provádí čtenáře v chronologickém sledu barvitým světem Murakamiho románových příběhů a krůček po krůčku před ním odkrývá další, zastřešující příběh, sahající od počátků a inspiračních zdrojů autorovy tvorby až po moment, kdy se Murakamimu daří poprvé úspěšně vyrovnat se svým velkým tématem – temnými stíny moderní japonské historie.

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby -- Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.

Slavné postavy národních dějin bývají obvykle představovány jako výlupky všech ctností a dávány za příklad dalším generacím. Ale co když jsou takové oficiální verze až příliš krásné, než aby byly i pravdivé, ptá se Tanizaki v Tajné historii pána z Musaši a odpovídá překvapujícím způsobem. Kudy vede hranice mezi hrdinstvím a perverzí? Jedním z…

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant's reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday.

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase""is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.