Murakami 2020 Diary - Hardcover

Murakami, Haruki

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23 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787301621 ISBN 13: 9781787301627

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2019

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A beautifully designed hardback diary for 2020, featuring unique artwork inspired by Haruki Murakami's works along with quotations and significant dates.

Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers. This diary includes visual and textual references to his works, from Wind/Pinball, A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood to Killling Commendatore and Novelist as a Vocation.

Contents include:

Yearly Planner
Selection of Japanese Holidays and Festivals
Dates of cycles of the moon
Seasonal quotations and extracts from Murakami's books
Significant dates from the books marked
Images of jackets in progress as well as the finished versions
Visual content from The Strange Library
Specially designed artwork to match the seasons
Notes section at the back
Dimensions:15.3 x 1.5 x 21.4cm. Image or text on every recto, and weekly planner on verso.

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Review:

"The best novelist on the planet" (Observer)

About the Author:

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine 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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