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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto) is a memoir by Haruki Murakami in which he writes about his interest and participation in long-distance running. The book is translated to English by Philip Gabriel. Murakami started ...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a memoir about his experience as a marathon runner and a triathlete, was published in Japan in 2007, [49] with English translations released in the UK and the US in 2008. The title is a play on that of Raymond Carver's short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. [50]
It is an independent sequel to Pinball, 1973, and the third book in the so-called "Trilogy of the Rat". It won the 1982 Noma Literary Newcomer's Prize . While the original story of A Wild Sheep Chase was set in the 1970s, translator Alfred Birnbaum and Kodansha editor Elmer Luke wanted a story that was more contemporary and also appealed to ...
Pages in category "Running books" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... What I Talk About When I Talk About Running; Why We Run
Quenton Cassidy – The protagonist of the book, Cassidy is a collegiate runner whose dedication to the sport forces him to choose to drop out of school and run under the coaching of Bruce Denton (see below). Bruce Denton – A fictional Olympic champion runner who becomes Cassidy's friend and coach. Jerry Mizner – Cassidy's best friend and ...
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Like other Murakami novels, After Dark features a dual narrative. About half of the book focuses on Mari Asai and half focuses on her sister, Eri. There is a third narrative involving Shirakawa, but this is woven into Mari's half of the tale. Like his other novels, Murakami brings the two story threads together.
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