Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami

Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami

Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakamis 70th birthday. Birthday Girl is also available in Birthday Stories and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

A subtle story that leaves readers analysing every moment… It's undoubtedly a story you can read again and again and derive a different interpretation with each new reading, which just goes to show why it's still being published and talked about nearly 20 years after it was first published * Culturefly *

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781787301252
ISBN 10	1787301257
Title	Birthday Girl
Author	Haruki Murakami
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2019-01-24
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.