What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Publisher : Vintage
- Publishing year : April 2009
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780099526155
- Imprint : Vintage
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
- Number of Pages : 192 Pages
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd c ...
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 races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's jingu gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles river in Boston. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running
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.
