- Self-actulaization (Psychology), Fiction, Miscellanea, Japanese Authors
A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk to cats, a mysterious librarian, and a woman waiting for a long-dead lover.
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Contemporary, open-ended, prestige and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- November 2006
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Naxos of America, DuMont, Shincho sha
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- cat, Japanese, Dutch, srp
- ISBN
- 9789724616469
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“«Com que então estás safo em matéria de dinheiro, não é?», diz o rapaz chamado Corvo na voz monótona do costume.”
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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