NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.
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Contemporary, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- 2024
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group, Polirom
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- rum
- ISBN
- 9786303440750
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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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