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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$48.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the authorWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to hi ...Show more
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, h ...Show more
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire to a time wh ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. ow ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a n ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: good
"Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the ...Show more
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats by Haruki Murakami (Contribution by); Calvin Trillin (Contribution by); M. F. K. Fisher (Contribution by); Ronald Dahl (Contribution by); New Yorker Magazine Staff; Anthony Lane (Foreword by)
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Look what The New Yorker dragged in It's the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine's archives. Among the cont ...Show more
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
"When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world ...Show more
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more