The Murakami Haruki Chronicles BOOK2 2016~2021

You'll want to read more of Murakami Haruki! "Reading Murakami Haruki by Koyama Tetsuro," serialized monthly in local newspapers and on Kyodo News' website "47NEWS" for 10 years starting immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, is now available in book form!

This book is a record of a literary journalist who has been covering, reading, and studying Murakami Haruki for over 30 years since his 1985 interview with him when "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" was published. This book explores the author's message through the details of his novels, providing a comprehensive look at Murakami's work.

From his masterpieces such as "Norwegian Wood," "Kafka on the Shore," and "1Q84" to lesser-known short stories, essays, and interviews, as well as works published since 2016, such as "Killing Commendatore" (2017), "First Person Singular," and "Abandoning My Cat: Talking About My Father" (2020), the book connects the words in his books like a planetary alignment and interprets them. The definitive guidebook to Murakami Haruki.