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Haruki Murakami.
For a writer who breathes the rarified air of international F literary superstardom, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami (1949-) has become adept at performing that most audacious of balancing acts: remaining a darling of the literary establishment and English graduate students, while injecting irresistible, fun pop into his fiction. Murakami is an engaging storyteller, and his novels mix the mundane with the fantastic--elements that surprise, disturb, confuse, and delight readers in equal measure.
In the last two decades, following his debut in English of his third novel A Wild Sheep Chase (1983; translated 1989), Murakami has established himself as one of the most innovative and enigmatic novelists of the new millennium. His analogues in English are many and varied, including the fantastic, the postmodern, and the noir: Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, Thomas Pynchon, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick. Born in Kobe, Japan, in 1949, Murakami grew up steeped in the music of the West, absorbing images of...See the full content of this document
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