The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers: the books they wrote; the books that inspired them; the...

Originally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, Abandoning a Cat is a poignant, self-reflective work by Haruki Murakami. Here he writes about his father,...

When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he becomes convinced that she has gone to a strange, imagined city she once described—a walled place where shadows are separated from their owners...

Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the...

The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios...

When a portrait painter in his thirties is abruptly abandoned by his wife, he withdraws from his life in Tokyo and takes refuge in a secluded mountain home once owned by a celebrated artist, Tomohiko...

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends,...

In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he...

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,...

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such...

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...

Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, driven by a dark prophecy and a desire to escape his past. He finds refuge in a quiet private library, where he forms connections with its caretakers...

K, a young schoolteacher in Tokyo, is quietly in love with Sumire, an aspiring writer who lives on the margins of ordinary life. Sumire, however, becomes captivated by Miu, an older, sophisticated...

On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the...

Hajime, an only child who grows up feeling set apart from others, forms a deep bond in childhood with Shimamoto, a quiet girl who shares his sense of isolation. Their connection is intense but brief,...