Haruki Murakami

Broschiertes Buch

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Beschreibung

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, the author began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. This title presents his portrait.

Autor

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, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

© Markus Tedeskino / Ag.Focus

Zur Autorenwelt

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 262967
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 140g
• ISBN-13: 9780099526155
• ISBN-10: 0099526158
• Artikelnr.: 25691782

Rezensionen

It's an inspiring, reflective read that'll make you want to dust your trainers off Andy McNicoll Professional Social Work