Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami First published in 1979, Hear the Wind Sing is Haruki Murakami’s debut novel (or novella, depending upon where one draws the line). An unnamed narrator tells the story of what happened to him over the course of eighteen days when he was a university student. He spends most […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 2 | Haruki Murakami | Audio, Edge | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami I’ve seen Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase casually described as postmodern, as surreal, and as magic realism. Though it was published in 1982 (and translated into English in 1989), and though the main character is not a private investigator, I nevertheless think of it as a weird […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Haruki Murakami | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us. Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 2 | Haruki Murakami | Edge | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Toru Watanabe is just another kid studying drama at university when he falls for his friend Naoko, who is in a relationship with another of Toru’s friends, Kizuki — until Kizuki commits suicide. Emotionally confused because she feels “split in two and playing tag with myself,” Naoko escapes to a […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami At first glance, Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is about Toru Okada, a legal assistant who has given up his job in the hope of finding a more fulfilling purpose. Though happily married, his cat, Noboru Wataya, has gone missing. If a missing cat sounds too straightforward […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami is a celebrated novelist, but Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche is a work of non-fiction about the 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subways carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In five separate locations, cultists simultaneously […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Non-fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us. Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart is narrated by an elementary school teacher we know as “K.” […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 3 | Haruki Murakami | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
After Dark by Haruki Murakami In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us. The bars are closing and the night’s last trains are shuttling people out of the […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami I have just finished reading Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running for the fifth time. I love this book, and although I wouldn’t say it’s the greatest book ever written, it may be my favorite book ever written. […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 5 | Haruki Murakami | Edge, Non-fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 9 comments |
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami In Tokyo, in 1984, a young woman in a taxi on her way to an important appointment is stuck in gridlock on an elevated highway. After getting some cryptic advice from her cab driver, she walks across several lanes of stopped traffic and makes a perilous climb down a safety access […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Haruki Murakami | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami [In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.] I don’t usually include photos of a book I’m reviewing, except for the cover, […]
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Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (2016) is an edited transcript of several conversations between Haruki Murakami, the novelist, and Seiji Ozawa, the conductor. I came to this book as a fan of Murakami’s writing, as many of this site’s readers would. SFF readers may […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami What is the best way into Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Killing Commendatore (2018)? This is a late novel from an aging novelist (Murakami is 69 years old) who has perhaps lost the vitality that carried his greatest novels. In fact, I gave up on 2013’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 4 | Haruki Murakami | Edge | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer I haven’t actually read every page of The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, yet I’m giving it my highest recommendation. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Master and Mistress of Weird, The Weird is 1126 pages long […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Abraham Merritt, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Clark Ashton Smith, Clive Barker, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Hand, Fritz Leiber, George R.R. Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Haruki Murakami, Jeff VanderMeer, K.J. Bishop, Kelly Link, Laird Barron, Lisa Tuttle, Liz Williams, Lord Dunsany, Lucius Shepard, M. John Harrison, Margo Lanagan, Mervyn Peake, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Tanith Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
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