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Author: Murakami, Haruki
ISBN: 9781101974537

by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)

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From the publisher

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller--and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers" --New York Times Book Review

Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians.

Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer's "mental chest of drawers"; the necessity of loneliness, patience, and his daily running routine; the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more.

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Title Novelist as a Vocation
Author Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
Binding Paperback
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date 2023-11-07
ISBN 9781101974537 / 1101974532
Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Essays, Japanese essays
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022021694
Dewey Decimal Code 895.645

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Shelf Awareness, 12/01/2023, Page 0

About the author

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.