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Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia's husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talentedyoung

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazzb

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life,Murakami's

What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel,H

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narratorcau

In 1705 Kornel Csillag's grandfather happens across a miraculous gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud of an ancient Magyar battlefield, which is to improve dramatically his family's shipwrecked fortunes - for the timepiece bestows an unexpected gift on succeeding generations of male Csillags: the gift of seeing. And each clairvoyant first-born son in turn passes down the Book of Fathers, a battered folio in which the family records its astonishing and revelatory visions and which takes in three hundred years of Csillag history, bearing vivid witness to holocaust and wedding feast alike. Headlong, exuberant, riotous and packed tight with stories, jokes and tragedy, THE BOOK OF FATHERS is an irresistibly rich Central European feast of a book - parable, folk-tale and epic all rolled into one - that is set to become a European classic. Család -regény, mely tizenkét nemzedékröl szól, föképpen azoknak az elsöszülötteiröl. Háromszáz évnyi utazás a magyar térben és idöben.

This is a mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of NorwegianWood and 1Q84. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu

Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhoodafflict

Mari ha perdido el último tren de vuelta a casa y piensa pasar la noche leyendo en el restaurante mientras su hermana Eri duerme. De pronto, Kaoru, la encargada de un hotel por horas, solicita su ayuda. Mari habla chino y una prostituta de esanacionalida

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration /Independent on Sunday/Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only

Könnyednek tünö, rafinált történetében Murakami megidézi az 1960-as évek diáklázadásainak hangulatát, a szabad szerelem, a nagy ivászatok, az élvezetek kamaszos, provokatív hajszolásának popzenés világát. Ám a felszín alatt leheletfinom érzékenységgel ír

Murakami legújabb regényében egy müvész kapcsolatba kerül egy idegen párhuzamos világgal, amelyböl maga a Commendatore"

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation.It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a f

When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her frontgarden.

The Strange Library will be published in hardback with specially designed text and illustrations on 2nd December 2014.'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds hi

A Férfiak nö nélkül címü kötet történetei megidézik Ernest Hemingway-t, de, nem a nök utáni hajszolt vágyról szólnak, mint az amerikai klasszikus hasonló címü korai elbeszélés-válogatása. Murakami novellahösei olyan férfiak, akiket elhagyott (vagy éppelh

It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children - are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life on the island starts to

The surprise smash hit of 2018 now in paperback - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineMeet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working inthe same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko's family wish

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through theg

Adapted into a Netflix series, coming in 2019...Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila's third birthday party: it was thelast time she saw her alive.Sixteen years have passed and Shalini's life is unrecognizable. Her husbandgone: beaten and drag

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as alovin

'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional' A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began

Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, carefully built. But Emerence has secrets and vulnerabilities beneath her indomitable exterior which will test Magda’s friendship and change the complexion of both their lives irreversibly.

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'