It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness he weaves into his narratives. Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. He has also translated a number of English works into Japanese, from Raymond Carver to J. Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–2010). His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), while his oeuvre garnered among others the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009). Murakami has been translated into 50 languages and his best-selling books have sold millions of copies. Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese writer. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages. ( From the publisher.) Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PilgrimageĬolorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel-a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan-from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami.
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