Posts tagged "Haruki Murakami"
Book Review: ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami

Book Review: ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami

Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780099448792 Pages: 607 Price: Rs 450 Last year, when I decided to give Murakami a try, the curiousness was to find out why Murakami is what Murakami is. I have read a lot of writers’ works, but never did anyone create as much positive hype and adulation as Haruki managed...
Book Review: 'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami

Book Review: ‘Kafka on the Shore’ by Haruki Murakami

Language: English ISBN: 9780099494096 Pages: 615 Price: INR 399 Anyone who is familiar with Haruki Murakami’s works will find ‘Kafka on the Shore‘ yet another Murakami-ish puzzling and alluring tale of talking cats, fish falling from the sky and a spirit of all sorts, Colonel Sanders. The book is full of riddles and questions left...
Book Review: 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami

Book Review: ‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami

Language: English ISBN: 9780099554547 Pages: 400 Price: INR 399 “I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me… She showed me her room, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?” These lines from the Beatles’ song ‘Norwegian Wood’ inspired the title of Haruki Murakami’s most famous book of the same name. ‘Norwegian Wood‘...
Book Review: 'After the Quake' by Haruki Murakami

Book Review: ‘After the Quake’ by Haruki Murakami

“Strange and mysterious things, though, are not they — earthquakes?” the driver says. “We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. But suddenly one day we see that it is not true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be so solid, all of a sudden turn...