A Simpler, More Physical Kind of Empathy
Lorna Sage: Haruki Murakami, 30 September 1999
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel.
Harvill, 187 pp., £9.99, July 1999,1 86046 594 3 Show More
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel.
Harvill, 187 pp., £9.99, July 1999,
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin.
Harvill, 609 pp., £12, May 1998,9781860464706 Show More
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin.
Harvill, 609 pp., £12, May 1998,
“... the theatrical sense: he did his degree in drama). In between, in 1987, he’d published Norwegian Wood, which sold two million copies in Japan. These books were obviously fun, and eerily recognisable (someone wittily rechristened the first ‘The Big Sheep’). For the young Murakami, who used to like to tell people that his vocation as a novelist came to him ... ”