Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
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Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2010-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307777690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307777693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by : Haruki Murakami
Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2010-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307762726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307762726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Wild Sheep Chase by : Haruki Murakami
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the 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 who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.
Author |
: Tanith Lee |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 125 |
Release |
: 2015-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780575120501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0575120509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Unicorn by : Tanith Lee
Nobody knew where it had come from, or what it wanted. Not even Jaive, the sorceress, could fathom the mystery of the fabled beast. But Tanaquil, Jaive's completely unmagical daughter, understood it at once. She knew why the unicorn was there: It had come for her. It needed her. Tanaquil was amazed because she was the girl with no talent for magic. She could only fiddle with broken bits of machinery and make them work again. What could she do for a unicorn?
Author |
: Joanna Russ |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 157 |
Release |
: 2018-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504050968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504050967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Who Are About To . . . by : Joanna Russ
One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany). In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ’s trailblazing body of work, “her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms” (The Washington Post).
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 752 |
Release |
: 2018-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525520054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525520058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Killing Commendatore by : Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—from one of our greatest writers. • “Exhilarating ... magical.” —The Washington Post When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure.
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2010-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307370488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307370488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Dark by : Haruki Murakami
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before; a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maidstaff; and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These “night people” are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Yuri’s slumber—mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime—will either restore or annihilate her. After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency—the interplay between self-expression and understanding, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2015-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385352130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385352131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wind/Pinball by : Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Wind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel, Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover. In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer’s beginnings.
Author |
: David Karashima |
Publisher |
: Catapult |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2020-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781593765903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1593765908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami by : David Karashima
How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A "fascinating" look at the "business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience" (The Atlantic)―and a “rigorous” exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of literary culture (The Paris Review). Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami’s works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained in art history who never intended to become a translator; a Chinese American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who together introduced a pop-inflected, unexpected Japanese voice to the wider literary world. David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices over the course of many years worked to build an internationally celebrated author’s persona and oeuvre. His careful look inside the making of the “Murakami Industry" uncovers larger questions: What role do translators and editors play in framing their writers’ texts? What does it mean to translate and edit “for a market”? How does Japanese culture get packaged and exported for the West?
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 695 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0099507072 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780099507079 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Two novels by : Haruki Murakami
Two of Murakami's early novels are brought together. Dark, dry and downright weird, 'A Wild Sheep Chase' is the story of a man, a girl, her ears and a very special sheep. 'Dance Dance Dance' is part murder-mystery, part metaphysical speculation.
Author |
: Haruki Murakami |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2010-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307762733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307762734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Elephant Vanishes by : Haruki Murakami
In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures. Includes the story "Barn Burning," which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning.