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Wind / Pinball : two novels / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-; Goossen, Ted,translator.; Murakami, Haruki,1949-1973-nen no pinbōru.English.; Murakami, Haruki,1949-Hear the wind sing.; Murakami, Haruki,1949-Kaze no uta o kike.English.; Murakami, Haruki,1949-Novels.English.; Murakami, Haruki,1949-Pinball, 1973.;
The birth of my kitchen-table fiction -- Hear the Wind Sing -- Pinball, 1973.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Novelist as a vocation / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-author.; Gabriel, Philip,1953-translator.; Goossen, Ted,translator.; translation of:Murakami, Haruki,1949-Shokugyō to shite no shōsetsuka.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing"--
Subjects: Essays.; Murakami, Haruki, 1949-; Fiction;
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Killing Commendatore / by Murakami, Haruki,1949-author.; Goossen, Theodore William,1948-translator.; Gabriel, Philip,1953-translator.; translation of:Murakami, Haruki,1949-Kishidancho goroshi.English.;
"A publishing event: a major new, epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--a painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey. Ambitious and haunting, tactile and surreal, preoccupied with questions about trauma, art and the creative process, Killing Commendatore moves between the known world and a complex underworld."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Portrait painters; Painting, Japanese;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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