Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two bizarre narratives - the 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' and 'The End of the World' parts. Все тени умирают в Городе. Иначе от них останется нежить, которая уходит в Лес. Именно там живут люди, которые не смогли до конца убить свою тень... ...Череп пропал еще в 42-м, во время блокады Ленинграда, когда немцы разбомбили университет.
A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses teh most perfect ears, is sent on a search for the sheep with a star on its back. This catapults him into a weird adventure to find the sheep in the wilds of Hookaido, Japan's northern island. There are strange stories, strange encounters. A Wild Sheep Chase is an early murakami work, but its remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most compelling - and funny - of his books.
Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes Audiobook audio only
A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout the world with an increasing reputation.
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old
dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed
to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an
uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of
advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters
with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. It
is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical
speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting
from the window of a sports car.
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches info his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
