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An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is an illuminating glimpse into the solitary passions of one of our greatest artists.While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of his progress. The result is a memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid recollections and insights, including t...

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING is rich and revealing, both for fans of this masterful yet private writer and for the exploding po...

New data on animal cell technology are brought together in this volume, with emphasis given to the basic characterization of cell lines. The merits of different cell culture systems are examined and investigations into the factors influencing cell growth and productivity are presented. A special section deals with the biological properties of proteins produced by engineered animal cells. All those involved in the culture of animal cells will f...

Includes the story "Barn Burning" which is now the basis for the major motion picture BurningComing this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki MurakamiIn the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air, a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hu...

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This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the authors life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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 wri...

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The follow up to "In The Miso Soup", which has sold 24, 000 copies in the UK, this is a dark and disturbing psycho thriller. '...a Japanese extension of David Lynch's world: surreal, sexually anguished, highly neurotic, both knowing and naive' "Guardian

An eclectic and eccentric collection of short stories from the Japanese master of magic realism. Spanning five years of his writing, it includes a stories of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear, a nightwatchman whose reflection in a mysterious mirror tries to take control of him, and a couple whose relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on crab. Always favouring the surreal over the real, this is a dazzling ...

This book is a collection of papers presented at UCS 2004, held on November 8-9 in Tokyo. UCS is a series of international symposia sponsored by the special interest group Ubiquitous Computing Systems of the Information Processing Society of Japan. The ?rst UCS was held on November 17, 2003 in Kyoto. It was held as an invitation-based symposium. UCS 2004 was the second of the series, and the ?rst submission-based conference. UCS focuses on the...

Collects "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" in which a 'shuffler' is at work in Tokyo, where the minds of the people have become servant to the requirements of the governmental 'system', and "End of the World" in which a 'dreamreader' sifts through memories, scattering them to oblivion.

Pinball, 1973 is Murakami's second novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author.Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, the Rat. Pinball, 1973 picks up three years after the events of Hear the Wind Sing. The narrator has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live wi...

This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the authors life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.

From the bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, this is a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life.

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers, Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work. Presenting outstanding analysis of Japanese intellectuals ...

Tengo, dove sei?" Ci sono amori che devono attraversare universi per incontrarsi. Ci sono amori che devono superare ostacoli, difficoltà, avversari, enigmi. Amori che devono, soprattutto, vincere le paure interiori inquietanti e terribili come piccole creature che albergano dentro di noi per poter creare a propria volta un mondo in cui non ci sia più la paura, un mondo nuovo in cui essere al sicuro in due. Aomame e Tengo vivono da sei mesi in ...

1984, Tokyo. Aomame è bloccata in un taxi nel traffico. L'autista le suggerisce, come unica soluzione per non mancare all'appuntamento che l'aspetta, di uscire dalla tangenziale utilizzando una scala di emergenza, nascosta e poco frequentata. Ma, sibillino, aggiunge di fare attenzione: "Non si lasci ingannare dalle apparenze. La realtà è sempre una sola". Negli stessi giorni Tengo, un giovane aspirante scrittore dotato di buona tecnica ma pove...

Una mattina Gregor Samsa si sveglia in un letto e scopre con orrore di essersi trasformato in un essere umano. Non ricorda nulla della sua vita precedente. Che fine ha fatto lo spesso carapace che lo proteggeva? E perché adesso è ricoperto da questa sottile, delicata pelle rosa? Chi, o cosa, era prima di quel risveglio? Insomma, adesso Samsa dovrà adattarsi alla nuova e "mostruosa" condizione di uomo. Quando però...