Hear The Wind Sing available to buy

We have been able to get a limited supply of Hear the Wind Sing direct from Japan and copies are available for 14 pounds (world wide postage if included). If you would like to buy a copy please use the paypal link  on the novels page

 

Competition

The nice people at Naxos have kindly given me a copy of the new release from their range of Murakami Audio Books – A Wild Sheep Chase to use as a competition prize.

A Wild Sheep Chase is read by Rupert Degas over 8 CD’s (12 hours) and retails at £29.99 (about $45).

To find out more about Naxos’ Murakami audio books and have a chance of winning this great prize, please check out www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk

 

Murakami Wikipedia Page

Unsupprisingly Wikipedia contains an excellent page of links on HM. Also there's a good page of quotes from the novels

 

Kafka featured on Random House Readers Group

Interesting look at the books themes.

 

NY Times Featured Author

Page linking to the The Times' interviews, reviews and articles relative to Murakami

 

Jay Rubin – Talk on “How NOT to Write a Book on Haruki Murakami”

Jay Rubin is a specialist of Japanese literature and a prize-winning translator, particularly known for his work on Haruki Murakami, Japan’s most popular post-modern novelist world-wide. Professor Rubin will discuss the process of Murakami’s literary production, based on the experience of writing his latest book, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words (2002).

 

Hear the Wind Sing

Interesting review by Tim Footman

 

Murakami irate over auction of manuscripts

A bit old this, but from the Japan Times:

Popular novelist Haruki Murakami said in a monthly magazine released Friday that a number of his manuscripts have been put up for auction on the Internet and at secondhand bookshops without his permission.

In a contribution to the April issue of the magazine Bungei Shunju, Murakami discussed details on the auctions, denouncing it as "unlawful trading of original manuscripts."

Full article here (annoying registration required)

 

Pinball 73 available

"I used to love listening to stories about faraway places. It was almost pathological.There was a time, a good ten years ago now, when I went around latching onto one erson after another, asking them to tell me about the places where they were born and grew up.Times were short of people willing to lend a sympathetic ear, it seemed, so anyone and everyoneopened up to me, obligingly and emphatically telling all. People I didn’t even know somehow ot word of me and sought me out."

Murakami's second novel, unpublished out side Japan and out of print in Japan is available for download as a pdf.

If you haven't read it yet – enjoy!

 

Q & A: Banana Yoshimoto and Japan’s Young Generation

Interesting question and answer session fromthe International Herald Tribune. Worth reading for background on Murakami's generation of authors.