Author of the Day: Haruki Murakami 村上春樹 “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Norwegian Wood
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami claims that he learned to write novels by listening to music, and he refers constantly to the qualities of rhythm, melody, harmony, and free improvisation. His novels are quirky: surrealistic and supernatural, melancholic and fatalistic. They blend myth and modern, magical realism and traditional Japanese tales.
Haruki Murakami (born 1949) is a Japanese writer. Both of his parents taught Japanese literature. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly American and Russian music and literature.
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