A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 A New York Times Notable Book A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award "Hardly a soul writes of the listening and playing of music with such insight and tenderness. . . . There are moments of epiphany gracefully expressed, especially in regard…
Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind ― Guardian Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is…
