Murakami Haruki

Eseje zawarte w tym tomie Haruki Murakami zaczął pisać mniej więcej sześć lat temu. Już znacznie wcześniej czuł potrzebę, by opowiedzieć czytelnikom o swojej twórczości i o tym, jak to jest być pisarzem.Teksty z tej książki mogą być potraktowane jako eseje autobiograficzne, ale Murakami pisząc je, nie miał takiej świadomości. Chciał tylko pokazać...

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret...

"I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden." Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars,...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer and a world-class conductor.'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though...

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle...