The Memory Police June 8, 2023When I purchased this novel a couple years back — and it sat on my “shelf” the entire...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage May 1, 2015I’ve read a bunch of Murakami over the years and am starting to wonder if, like Kurt Vonnegut...
1Q84 August 5, 2013Full disclosure: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of my favorite books of all time, so all Murakami...
Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World January 20, 2012I’ve read quite a few Murakami books at this point. Not in any particular order, obviously, but I’ve...
Kafka On the Shore May 27, 2009Fantastic realism I think they call it. Or mystic concretism. Maybe trippy groundedness? However you classify Murakami, this...
Dance Dance Dance August 17, 2007Murakami is like the big dork’s Raymond Carver. In fact, I’m a giant dork for just making that...
A Wild Sheep Chase October 15, 2006It’s clear that this is the same man who wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The pervasive themes of...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle March 15, 2005I’m usually a little hesitant to read translated books. What if the author meant “that” and the translator...
