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1Q84: Book One, Book Two and Book Three by Haruki Murakami
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a ...Show more
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3 by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel ...Show more
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: 1q84 Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems n ...Show more
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"His life was like his recurring nightmare- a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic- ...Show more
Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music.' Haruki Murakami's passion for ...Show more
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Eyes mark the shape of the cityi>he midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed- a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy slee ...Show more
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man- did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-ye ...Show more
Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
$6.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's a ...Show more
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki MurakamiThe twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami's mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as we ...Show more
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author. A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears ...Show more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. ...Show more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
$26.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Woodand 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls ...Show more