Word: murakami
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from...
...influences writing this thesis have been Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Russian patricidal literature (my father thinks he’s going to be the “bad guy” in the story, but I don’t think there’ll be any daddy-killing...
...Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) tries to effect a kind of Japanese magic realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
BOOK The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami "Engrossing, compelling, charming...
...worry, it’s more bizarre and wonderful than it sounds, and the adventure leads us from Japan to Europe to the coast of Greece and then to the satellite itself. You need to be somewhat cool (and puzzling) in order to have the international following that Murakami does...