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Contemporary, cool, classical in form and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- April 1, 1998
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Belfond, A. A. Knopf, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, French, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9780679420576
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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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