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MURAKAMI HARUKI UNDERGROUND

In 1978  Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day  the
impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel
Hear the Wind Sing  won a new writers¿ award and was published the following year. More
followed  including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World  but
it was Norwegian Wood  published in 1987  which turned Murakami from a writer into a
phenomenon. His books became bestsellers  were translated into many languages  including
English  and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami¿s unique and addictive fictional
universe. Murakami writes with admirable discipline  producing ten pages a day  after which he
runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous
marathons and races)  works on translations  and then reads  listens to records and cooks. His
passions colour his non-fiction output  from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to
Absolutely On Music  and they also seep into his novels and short stories  providing quotidian
moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  1Q84 and Men Without Women  his distinctive blend of the mysterious and
the everyday  of melancholy and humour  continues to enchant readers  ensuring Murakami¿s place
as one of the world¿s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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