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HARUKI MURAKAMI (b. 1949) is a bestselling Japanese writer and the most widely translated Japanese novelist of his generation.  Considered an important figure in postmodern literature, his work has garnered critical acclaim and numerous international awards.

From the start his writing was characterized by images and events that the author himself found difficult to explain but which seemed to come from the inner recesses of his memory.  Murakami's fiction is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness he weaves into his narratives.  He has often been criticized as "un-Japanese" by his country's literary establishment,  and his perceived lack of a political or intellectual stance irritated "serious" authors (such as Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo), who dismissed his early writings as being no more than entertainment.

His first novel, HEAR THE WIND SING (1979), won a prize for best fiction by a new writer.  Murakami then published PINBALL (1973) and A WILD SHEEP CHASE (1982), novels that feature the narrator from HEAR THE WIND SING and his friend, known as "the Rat", thus constituting a loose trilogy.  The narrator and the Rat also appeared in Murakami's next important novel, HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD (1985), a fantasy that won the prestigious Tanizaki Prize.  Murakami adopted a more straightforward style for the coming-of-age novel NORWEGIAN WOOD (1987), which sold millions of copies in Japan and firmly established him as a literary celebrity.  He then returned to the bizarre milieu of his earlier trilogy with DANCE DANCE DANCE (1988).

While teaching in the United States, he wrote one of his most ambitious novels, THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE (1994-95).  The narrative represents a departure from his usual themes: it is devoted in part to depicting Japanese militarism on the Asian continent as a nightmare.  Murakami returned to Japan in 1995, prompted by the Kobe earthquake and by the sarin gas attack carried out by the AUM Shinrikyo religious sect on a Tokyo subway.  The two deadly events subsequently served as inspiration for Underground (1997), a nonfiction account of the subway attack, and AFTER THE QUAKE (2000), a collection of short stories exploring the psychological effects of the earthquake on residents of Japan.

The novel SPUTNIK SWEETHEART (1999) probes the nature of love as it tells the story of the disappearance of Sumire, a young novelist.  Subsequent novels include KAFKA ON THE SHORE (2002) and AFTER DARK (2004).  1Q84 (2009), its title a reference to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four", shifts between two characters as they navigate an alternate reality of their own making; the book's dystopian themes range from the September 11 attacks to vigilante justice.  COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE (2013) delves into a young man's existential quandaries, precipitated by his ejection from a circle of friends.

His most work in English, FIRST PERSON SINGULAR (April 2021), is a mind-bending collection of short stories all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator.  From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:


== NOVELS ==

* 1Q84 (Knopf, 2011).  J. Rubin and P. Gabriel, trans.
* After Dark (Knopf, 2007).  J. Rubin, trans.
* Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki & His Years of Pilgrimage (Knopf, 2014). P. Gabriel, trans.
* Dance Dance Dance [The Rat, Book 4] (Vintage, 1995).  A. Birnbaum, trans.
* Hear the Wind Sing [The Rat, Book 1] (Kodansha, 1987).  A. Birnbaum, trans.
* Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World (Vintage, 1993). A. Birnbaum, trans.
* Kafka on the Shore (Knopf, 2005). P. Gabriel, trans.
* Killing Commendatore (Knopf, 2018). P. Gabriel and T. Goossen, trans.
* Norwegian Wood (Kodansha, 1989).  2 vols.  A. Birnbaum, trans. — ePUB + PDF
* Norwegian Wood (Vintage, 2000).  J. Rubin, trans.
* Pinball, 1973 [The Rat, Book 2] (Kodansha, 1985).  A. Birnbaum, trans.
* South of the Border, West of the Sun (Vintage, 2000).  P. Gabriel, trans.
* Sputnik Sweetheart (Knopf, 2001).  P. Gabriel, trans. — ePUB + PDF
* Strange Library, The (Knopf, 2014).  T. Goossen, trans.
* Wild Sheep Chase, A [The Rat, Book 3] (Vintage, 2002).  A. Birnbaum, trans.
* Wind / Pinball: Two Novels [The Rat, Books 1-2] (Knopf, 2015).  T. Goossen, trans.
* Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The (Vintage, 1998).  J. Rubin, trans.

== SHORT STORIES ==

* After the Quake: Stories (Vintage, 2003).  J. Rubin, trans.
* "Birthday Girl" (Vintage, 2019). J. Rubin, trans.
* Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Vintage, 2007). P. Gabriel and J. Rubin, trans.
* "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" (New Yorker, 8 June 2020) — PDF
* "Cream" (New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2019). P. Gabriel, trans. — PDF
* Desire (Vintage, 2017).  J. Rubin, P. Gabriel and T. Goossen, trans.
* Elephant Vanishes, The (Vintage, 1993).  A. Birnbaum and J. Rubin, trans.
* First Person Singular (Knopf, 2021).  P. Gabriel, trans.
* Men Without Women: Stories (Knopf, 2017).  P. Gabriel and T. Goossen, trans.
* "Samsa in Love" (New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2013). T. Goossen, trans. — PDF
* "Scheherazade" (New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2014). T. Goossen, trans. — PDF
* "Town of Cats" (New Yorker, 5 Sept. 2011).  J. Rubin, trans. — PDF
* "UFO in Kushiro" (New Yorker, 28 March 2011).  J. Rubin, trans. — PDF
* "Wind Cave, The" (New Yorker, 3 Sept. 2018). P. Gabriel, trans. — PDF
* "With the Beatles" (New Yorker, 17-24 Feb 2020). P. Gabriel, trans. — PDF
* "Yesterday" (New Yorker, 9 June 2014). P. Gabriel, trans. — PDF

== ESSAYS & NON-FICTION ==

* Abandoning a Cat (New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019). P. Gabriel, trans. — PDF
* Absolutely on Music: Conversations [with S. Ozawa] (Knopf, 2016).  J. Rubin, trans.
* Art of Fiction, No. 182 (Paris Review, Summer 2004).  Interview by J. Wray. — PDF
* Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack (Vintage, 2000). A. Birnbaum & P. Gabriel, trans.
* What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Knopf, 2008). P. Gabriel, trans.

== ANTHOLOGY ==

* Vintage Murakami (Knopf, 2004).  Various translators.

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