BEST OF MURAKAMI COLLECTION (3 BOOKS BOX SET)

In 1978 <b>Haruki Murakami</b> was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel <i>Hear the Wind Sing</i> won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed including <i>A Wild Sheep Chase</i> and <i>Hard-Boiled Wonderland</i> and the <i>End of the World</i> but it was <i>Norwegian Wood</i> published in 1987 that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.<br><br>In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 1Q84 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday of melancholy and humour continues to enchant readers ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. <b>Three of Murakami’s best-known and best-loved novels brought together in one beautiful boxset.</b><br><br>For nearly half a century Murakami has been delighting readers with his deceptively simple writing. His work is both fantastic and realistic as gripping as it is beguiling. This boxset contains three of the best novels from Japan’s greatest living novelist.<br><br>You might start with Norwegian Wood a story of young love and the book that shot Murakami to literary stardom. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle displays many of Murakami’s distinctive storytelling tropes – mysterious women and missing cats among them. And Kafka on the Shore the great masterpiece is the genre-bending tale of a fifteen-year-old runaway.