Novelist as a Vocation
- Publisher : Vintage
- Publishing year : June 2020
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781529918359
- Imprint : Penguin Random House
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principl ...
In 1978, Haruki Murakami 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, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.
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