Haruki Murakami

Under the Eye of the Big Bird Longlisted for the International Booker Prize From one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are…

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“Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories” With no real uniting theme, Unusual Fragments is more of a miscellany than a collection. The authors were born over a span of 78 years. Three of the stories are by women who grew up during the Paci…

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we hardly know anything

Love of Mountains Uno Koji, a literary figure of the first rank in twentieth-century Japan, was a maverick who defied literary conventions by combining the playfulness and stylistic verve of pre-Meiji literature wit…

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“A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi” Who is Shuzo Takiguchi? Neglected and out of print for decades in Japan, ignored by the anglophone world, awareness of his contributions to 20th century Japanese writing and fine arts is long overd…

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YouTube video by JapanSocietyNYC The Magical Art of Translation: From Haruki Murakami to Japan's Latest Storytellers

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book cover of Matthew Strecher's guide to the wind-up bird chronicle. book shelf with one book glowing.

Spring is coming and I am going to be busy in the mountains. Will resume posting again when the beasts grow out their golden hair. Plan to read again The Wind-up Bird in late August. I like the cover of Strecher's book, its just how I feel when looking at my own bookshelf.

Final:

Canada 3
US 2

Mine too. It's an absolute masterpiece. Murakami's greatest novel. imo.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle describing a Trump/Musk hybrid.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 👀

Gambare Hiroshima—Don’t Give Up! When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, Japanese schoolboy Larry Fumio Miwa faithfully recorded each day’s events in his diary, despite the massive devastation he experienced firstha...

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Haruki Murakami b&w photo. portrait of the artist as a young man.

evil assholes.

https://www.tumblr.com/offgrid-invader 71- bashing Noboru Wataya from scene in The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

71 - bashing Noboru Wataya

Opening of Kafka on the Shore. B-29s.

Hiroshima by M. G. Sheftall: 9780593472255 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024 The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable p...

Connections to Kafka on the Shore?

The Bodhisattva acts from the reality that lived experience is characterized by fundamental precariousness.

“May You Have Delicious Meals” by Junko Takase On its face, Junko Takase’s Akutagawa-Prize-winning novel May You Have Delicious Meals seems like the set up for a romantic comedy. Nitani, Ashikawa, and Oshio work together in the sales division o…

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good to know the link works. good luck.

Murakami Spaghetti

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“The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories”, edited by Bruce Fulton One of the publisher’s most recent of its national anthologies, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories provides portrayals of the country in the years 1905 to 1945, when the nation was under impe…

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aka: the panzerwanker

New Book: ‘The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump’ 40 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew

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Eggs are now $9.99 at my local market. Just regular everyday eggs.

I've recently read One hundred Years of of Solitude and currently reading Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel José García Márquez is definitely worthy of your time as a reader.

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” by Haruki Murakami The City and Its Uncertain Walls is Haruki Murakami’s fifteenth novel since his first, Hear the Wind Sing, published in 1979. His most recent is unmistakeably his, unmistakeably an addition t…

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“But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined.”

― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police