Haruki Murakami

What Would You Ask Haruki Murakami?

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Gotta question for the hippest Japanese novelist (and memoirist) around? Log in to Time magazine's Web site, where you can ask Haruki Murakami a question and possibly read the answer in a subsequent interview. Be careful what you ask for. Your question will be posted underneath the submission form after you enter it, along with your name and location.

So what does America want to know about Mr. Murakami? Here are some gems:

Posted by Kwok Sing in Amsterdam:

In stories like ‘Slow Boat to China’ or in your novel ‘wind up bird’, you are cautiously tackling the problematic relationship between Japan and China which of course is shaped by the historical events in the 20th century.  read more »

Midnight to Sunrise With Murakami

Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) is the author of 10 previous novels, including <i>Kafka on the Shore</i> (2005).
Elena Seibert
Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) is the author of 10 previous novels, including Kafka on the Shore (2005).

After Dark, Mr. Murakami’s latest, confines itself to the witching hours between 11:56 p.m. and 6:52 a.m. There isn’t a plot here so much as a flipbook of Edward Hopper paintings.  read more »

Prizewinning Short Stories From a Japanese Master

Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) is the author of 11 novels and three short-story collections.
Elena Seibert
Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) is the author of 11 novels and three short-story collections.

Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakam  read more »

A Writer's Magical Touch: Bare Bones, a Touch of Poetry

Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Alfred A.  read more »

Another Spiritual Ghost Story From a Fine Japanese Realist

South of the Border, West of the Sun , by Haruki Murakami. Alfred A.  read more »