Broschiertes Buch

Birthday Stories

Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

Mitarbeit: Murakami, Haruki; Banks, Russell; Carver, Raymond; Johnson, Denis; Theroux, Paul

Beschreibung

What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? The author has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. This title presents these stories.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 679281
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780099481553
• ISBN-10: 0099481553
• Artikelnr.: 20795047

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