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  by carouselambra & 14 users

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2008-06-13

  by carouselambra & 29 users

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Description: "The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with"The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator of this excellent book by Murakami, one of Japan's best-selling novelists and winner of the prestigious Tanizaki prize. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his mind and his shadow, from which he has been severed by the grim, dark "replacement" consciousness implanted in him by a dotty neurophysiologist. Both worlds share the unearthly theme of unicorn skulls that moan and glow. Murakami's fast-paced style, full of hip internationalism, slangy allegory, and intrigue, has been adroitly translated. Murakami is also author of A Wild Sheep Chase ( LJ 10/15/89); his new work is recommended for academic libraries and public libraries emphasizing serious contemporary fiction."

One of the best surrealist novels of our time....

2008-05-07

  by holajed & 3 users

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Description: reading this prior to my japanese holiday. the start was excellent - the middle is slow goingreading this prior to my japanese holiday. the start was excellent - the middle is slow going though. ...

2008-03-26

  by yennick & 40 users

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Tags: love japan college suicide loneliness solitude

2008-02-24

  by lindsathon & 47 users

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Author: Haruki Murakami

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Tags: fantasy mystery surreal japanese strange translated random minimalistic

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Description: "
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears,"
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician." ~Amazon Summary

Murakami's most famous masterpiece, with consistently interesting looks into the human psyche...

2007-12-18