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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is the Japanese novelist behind Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), 1Q84 (2009-2010), Killing Commendatore (2017), and The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2024). Murakami is one of the most-translated contemporary novelists writing in any language and the canonical contemporary Japanese literary novelist for the broader English-language audience.
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1987-2009
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 2009 review. An assassin and a novelist navigate a parallel-1984 Tokyo with two moons. Murakami's structural masterwork.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 1987 review. A middle-aged Japanese businessman remembers his late-1960s Tokyo college years and the two women who defined them. Murakami's breakthrough.
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