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  2. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Wikipedia

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    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando) is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It was awarded the Tanizaki Prize in 1985. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991.

  3. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Wikipedia

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    Murakami started writing the book in January 2020 while spending all time in his home during the covid-19 pandemic, and completed it in December 2022. [4] Initially his intention was to rewrite his 1980 short story with the same title to improve it, but the story got expanded to the 672 page novel, with the material from the short story forming its first chapter.

  4. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Wikipedia

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    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (めくらやなぎと眠る女, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna) is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.. The stories contained in the book were written between 1980 and 2005, and published in Japan in various magazines and collections.

  5. The Cult of Haruki Murakami - AOL

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    The world of Murakami is a land of mysteries, but perhaps the most pressing enigma has less to do with the meaning of any of his novels and more to do with the unlikeliness of his literary rise.

  6. Haruki Murakami - Wikipedia

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    Murakami enjoys baseball and describes himself as a fan of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. In his 2015 essay for Literary Hub "The Moment I Became a Novelist", Murakami describes how attending a Swallow's game in Jingu Stadium in 1978 led to a personal epiphany in which he decided to write his first novel. [126] Haruki Murakami is a fan of crime novels.

  7. Dances with Sheep - Wikipedia

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    Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki is a 2002 non-fiction book by Matthew Strecher, published by University of Michigan Press. It examines Haruki Murakami . It was the first full length critical book about the author.

  8. Novelist as a Vocation - Wikipedia

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    Novelist as a Vocation (職業としての小説家, Shokugyō to shite no Shōsetsuka) is an essay collection written by Haruki Murakami published by Switch Publishing on 10 September 2015. An English translation by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen was released on 8 November 2022 by Alfred A. Knopf in the US, [ 1 ] by Harvill Secker in the UK ...

  9. Burning (2018 film) - Wikipedia

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    Burning (Korean: 버닝; RR: Beoning) is a 2018 psychological mystery [3] film [4] [5] co-written, produced, and directed by Lee Chang-dong.The film is based on the short story "Barn Burning" from The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, with elements inspired by William Faulkner's story of the same name. [6]