A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on...

Dr. Ando who has yet to recover from his son's death at sea, conducts an autopsy on an old friend who has died under unusual circumstances. The corpse, that of cynical philosophy professor Ryuji...

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,...

Over the course of a single night in Tokyo, a series of lives briefly intersect in the quiet hours between midnight and dawn. Mari Asai, a college student unable to sleep, wanders the city and finds...

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the...

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways...

When Toru Watanabe hears the Beatles’ song “Norwegian Wood,” he is suddenly transported back to his university days in Tokyo during the late 1960s—a time marked by emotional uncertainty, student...

Toru Okada leads a quiet, uneventful life in Tokyo until his cat disappears—and soon after, his wife vanishes as well. What begins as a simple search quickly draws him into a series of increasingly...

The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories that explore the quiet strangeness beneath everyday life. Set in contemporary Japan, the stories follow ordinary individuals—a man whose elephant...