Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“Reading a #Murakami #novel … (is) a disquieting experience, like wandering through a forest with no end in sight, and #TheWind-UpBirdChronicle is the deepest and densest of all those forests.”
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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese author Haruki Murakami (born 1949) has written both novels and short stories. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is probably his most famous work, recommended on Five Books as his ‘grand opus.’ Short stories by Haruki Murakami appear in The Elephant Vanishes, a good book to read first to get a taste of his writing. Murakami’s most recent novel is The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023), published in 2024 in English.