The fantastical novels of Haruki Murakami have earned him a dedicated international fan-base and recurring success in the bestseller charts. In "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", Murakami's brilliant imagination seizes on the world's most ingenious and complex invention: the human mi[...]

In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. This work is the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist. It contains short stories, each dealing, not directly with the catastrophe, but with the wider seismic effect it had on the emotional lives[...]

In his book,Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utiliz[...]