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Haruki Murakami (born January 12, 1949) is a best-selling Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerusalem Prize, among others. Murakami has also translated a number of English works to Japanese. His notable works include 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment, is often humorous and surreal, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of themes of alienation and loneliness. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.
Murakami was born in Japan during the post–World War II baby boom. Although born in Kyoto, he spent his youth in Shukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant. Both taught Japanese literature.
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a wide range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan and Jack Kerouac. These Western influences distinguish Murakami from other Japanese writers.
Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. His first job was at a record store, much like Toru Watanabe, the narrator of Norwegian Wood. Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened a coffeehouse and jazz bar, the Peter Cat, in Kokubunji, Tokyo, which he ran with his wife from 1974 to 1981—again, not unlike the protagonist in his later novel "South of the border, West of the sun."
Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Some of his novels take their titles from songs: Dance, Dance, Dance (after The Dells' song, although it is widely thought it was titled after the Beach Boys tune), Norwegian Wood (after The Beatles' song) and South of the Border, West of the Sun (after the song "South of the Border" .
Murakami is a marathon runner and triathlete enthusiast, though he did not start running until he was 33 years old. On June 23, 1996, he completed his first ultramarathon, a 100-kilometer race around Lake Saroma in Hokkaido, Japan. He discusses his relationship with running in his 2008 memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no uta wo kike) was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Omori. The film was released in 1981 and distributed by Art Theatre Guild. Naoto Yamakawa directed two short films Attack on the Bakery (released in 1982) and A Girl, She is 100 Percent (released in 1983), based on Murakami's short stories "The Second Bakery Attack" and "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" respectively. Japanese director Jun Ichikawa adapted Murakami's short story "Tony Takitani" into a 75-minute feature. The film played at various film festivals and was released in New York and Los Angeles on July 29, 2005. The original short story, translated into English by Jay Rubin, is available in the April 15, 2002 issue of The New Yorker, as a stand-alone book published by Cloverfield Press, and part of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Knopf. In 1998, the German film Der Eisbaer (Polar Bear), written and directed by Granz Henman, used elements of Murakami's short story "The Second Bakery Attack" in three intersecting story lines. "The Second Bakery Attack" was also adapted as short film in 2010, directed by Carlos Cuaron, starred by Kirsten Dunst.
Murakami's work was also adapted for the stage in a 2003 play entitled The Elephant Vanishes, co-produced by Britain's Complicite company and Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre. The production, directed by Simon McBurney, adapted three of Murakami's short stories and received acclaim for its unique blending of multimedia (video, music, and innovative sound design) with actor-driven physical theater (mime, dance, and even acrobatic wire work). On tour, the play was performed in Japanese, with supertitle translations for European and American audiences.
Two stories from Murakami's book after the quake—"Honey Pie" and "Superfrog Saves Tokyo"—have been adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati. Entitled after the quake, the play was first performed at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in association with La Jolla Playhouse, and opened on October 12, 2007, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2008, Galati also adapted and directed a theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore, which first ran at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company from September to November.
On Max Richter's 2006 album Songs from Before, Robert Wyatt reads passages from Murakami's novels. In 2007, Robert Logevall adapted "All God's Children Can Dance" into a film, with a soundtrack composed by American jam band Sound Tribe Sector 9. In 2008, Tom Flint adapted "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" into a short film. The film was screened at the 2008 CON-CAN Movie Festival. The film was viewed, voted, and commented upon as part of the audience award for the movie festival.
It was announced in July 2008 that French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung would direct an adaptation of Murakami's novel, Norwegian Wood. The film was released in Japan on December 11, 2010.
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Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (read by James Yaegashi)
Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore (read by Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur)
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (read by Rupert Degas)
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (read by Marc Vietor, Allison Hiroto and Mark Boyett)
Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World (read by Adam Sims and Ian Porter)
Haruki Murakami - After Dark (read by Janet Song)
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (read by Rupert Degas)
Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki (read by Bruce Locke)
Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (read by Ray Porter)
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance (read by Rupert Degas)
Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes (read by Rupert Degas, John Chancer, Tim Flavin, Teresa Gallagher, Mark Heenehan, Walter Lewis and Jeff Peterson)
Haruki Murakami - After The Quake (read by Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher and Adam Sims)
Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (read by Patrick Lawlor and Ellen Archer)
Haruki Murakami - Wind/Pinball (read by Kirby Heyborne)
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Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/21bca584d2723767ca2567be4e0b1b26/Norwegian_Wood.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/05ce127c02dc15d5ccaa235526f4d53f/Kafka_On_The_Shore.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/041f1525f94eb61bf4590c050ef7490c/The_Wind_Up_Bird_Chronicle.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/32c783f65f2b0e0d1abb6687b979ebab/1Q84.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/525009847711cc82839da24f99985ae0/1Q84.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/987bca7d3954700e02dfbd9bc167a416/Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_And_The_End_Of_The_World.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6e3d443fd3abe7a2a58a62c8c3ef84c2/After_Dark.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6ecac0a5a4c1828098be10f1a4d6e98e/A_Wild_Sheep_Chase.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ecd2b83fd6481ad54cdd8d7804fa070/Colorless_Tsukuru_Tazaki.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2c318dbb5e6f72bce45bfdbb35940e59/What_I_Talk_Sbout_When_I_Talk_About_Running.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/09814d0f05a3e6b8dd843c1fc561468e/Dance_Dance_Dance.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d3ad730a3ff21b3e9349cc336518569d/The_Elephant_Vanishes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5879a02d9db9ebc48f7eaa977cbb753d/After_The_Quake.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a3845f58037f63c0267e63290ab5727e/Blind_Willow_Sleeping_Woman.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3eade154a1cef3885527c80d2b65a9f7/Wind_Pinball.rar.html |
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