- Fantasy fiction, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Tokyo (japan), fiction
Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect.
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Contemporary, open-ended, epic and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- November 1, 2000
- Pages
- 453
- Publisher
- btb Verlag, Bo Yi, Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Japanese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9789621712837
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“THE elevator continued its impossible slow ascent.”
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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