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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is the author of more than a dozen novels, including “ 1Q84,” “ Norwegian Wood,” and “ The City and Its Uncertain Walls.”

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7 picks · 1991–2021

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An Accidental Collection
showcase ·

Showcase by Haruki Murakami: How I amassed more T-shirts than I can store.

The Running Novelist
life and letters ·

Haruki Murakami on learning how to go the distance as a writer and a runner.

Hunting Knife
fiction ·

Fiction by Haruki Murakami: as his vacation winds down, a man becomes intrigued by a mysterious woman and her wheelchair-bound son.

The Folklore of Our Times
fiction ·

Short story about a man who meets a school friend who reminisces about his high-school girlfriend... I started high school in 1963. But as to whether the …

U.F.O. In Kushiro
fiction ·

Short story about a Japanese man whose wife suddenly leaves him, and who attempts to piece together his reaction to their divorce by taking a trip north to…

Barn Burning
fiction ·

The narrator, a married Japanese writer, meets a woman at a friends wedding in Tokyo, and proceeds to tell the story of their bizarre relationship. …

“The Elephant Vanishes”
fiction ·

Archival fiction by Haruki Murakami: The search went on for several days, but the authorities were unable to discover a single clue to the elephant’s whereabouts.