Bøger af Haruki Murakami

En seksogtrediveårig portrætmaler svigtes af sin hustru, og efter et roadtrip i det nordlige Japan flytter han ind i et hus oppe i bjergene, som har tilhørt en berømt, gammel maler.Huset ligger på kanten mellem to vejrlig, mellem to verdener, og snart begynder mærkelige ting at ske. En nat hører den yngre maler en puslen oppe fra loftet, og dér finder han et uhyggeligt, men dragende maleri. Han kan ikke slippe billedet, som synes at igangsætte en kæde af hændelser. En underlig ringlen lyder nu fra skoven, samtidig med at maleren fornemmer, at han ikke er helt alene i huset.Men han kan dele det, der sker, med den hjælpsomme genbo, Menshiki, som har betalt ham fyrsteligt for at male sit portræt, og hvis skæbne på mystisk vis væver sig ind i hans egen.

Brought to you by Penguin. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...(c) Haruki Murakami 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

388 sider, paperback. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo.

Biblioteket er et fast indslag i alle Haruki Murakamis romaner. I denne lille fortælling forvandler biblioteket sig til en helt anden verden, hvor en dreng, som bare lige skulle låne nogle bøger om skatteinddrivelse i Osmannerriget, bliver ført dybt ned i en mørk labyrint af gange. Her møder han en fåremand, der laver geniale donuts, en ung pige, som taler med hænderne, en meget gnaven, gammel bibliotekar og en uhyggelig sort hund. Men drengen længes hjem til sin tamme stær, der er sluppet ud af sit bur.'Det mystiske bibliotek’ skaber sin helt egen billedverden, og den er udkommet på adskillige sprog, med forskellige illustrationer fra land til land. I den danske udgave er det den kendte illustrator Kamila Slocinska, der har ladet sig inspirere af den forunderlige fortælling.

Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone.

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.

Novellerne i denne samling fortælles i første person ental – både med drengens, den unge mands, den midaldrende mands og ikke mindst den gamle mands stemme. Historierne spænder fra nostalgiske ungdomsminder til meditationer over musik, barndommens baseballstadion oplevet med en ellers fraværende far, drømmelignende scenarier og et enkelt fiktivt jazzalbum.I Danmark har vi fået lov til at inkludere en ekstra fortælling, Shinagawa-aben fra 2006, denne med en kvindelig fortæller.I fortællingerne ligger spor tilbage til hele forfatterskabet, en søgen efter meningen med livet eller måske bare en søgen efter at forstå, hvem vi er. Murakami udfordrer grænserne mellem menneskesindet og den ydre verden, imens historierne udfolder sig som cirkler med mange centrummer, men uden omkreds. Som altid synes også grænsen mellem fiktion og autobiografi at være flydende.

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator.

Dance Dance Dance-a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase-is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami's Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.As Murakami's nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartok to Mahler, and from pop-up orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of some of their favorite performances, and Murakami questions Ozawa about his career conducting orchestras around the world. Culminating in Murakami's ten-day visit to the banks of Lake Geneva to observe Ozawa's retreat for young musicians, the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting, jazz clubs, orchestra halls, film scores, and much more. A deep reflection on the essential nature of both music and writing, Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.

Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami's characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.

A collection that features such stories as: When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; and, more.

Romanens navnløse fortæller bor i en næsten tom lejlighed i Tokyo med minimal kontakt til andre menneskelige væsener - han har lært sig at dyrke kedsomheden som en kunstart. Men kedsomhedens modsætning - eventyret - sniger sig ind på vores fortæller.Først møder han en ung kvinde med de smukkeste ører, han nogensinde har set, så falder han over et billede af et får med en stjerneformet plet på ryggen, og endelig opsøges han af en ultrahøjreorienteret mand, der kalder sig Bossen. Bossen er døende, men han har en opgave, der skal løses. Vores fortæller må påtage sig hvervet, hvis han vil overleve. Den vilde fårejagt er i gang.Haruki Murakami er født i Kyoto i 1949. Han fik sit internationale gennembrud med romanen ’Trækopfuglens Krønike’, og siden er hans popularitet steget til kultagtige højder i hele verden, bla. med den store romantrilogi ’1Q84’. I 2006 modtog han Franz Kafka-prisen, der også er blevet kaldt 'den lille nobelpris'.

To fortællinger, der foregår i vidt forskellige universer, løber parallelt i Haruki Murakamis første store roman.I den ene er handlingen lagt i storbyen Tokyo i en ikke fjern fremtid, hvor den sidste overlevende fra et uhyggeligt hjerneeksperiment involveres i en hæsblæsende højteknologisk informationskrig, som byder på indtrængende små monstre, en vanvittig forsker dybt nede i kloakkerne under byen og en underskøn bibliotekar med en meget stor appetit. I den anden fortælling er vi hensat til ’Verdens ende’, en stille, afsondret og tidløs verden omgivet af en høj mur, hvor den navnløse fortæller brutalt skilles fra sin skygge og må forsøge at tolke de drømme, der stadig rummes i lysende enhjørningekranier.Uafvendeligt nærmer de to universer sig hinanden.

Hajime møder sin eneste ene, pigen Shimamoto, da de begge er tolv år, men han mister hende igen. Han begår den fatale fejl at give slip på hende i teenagealderen for først at møde hende mange år senere, da de begge er kommet op i trediverne. En dag sidder hun pludselig i hans jazzbar, fuld af mystik og hemmeligheder og med dybe sår i sjælen.Hajime opdager, at han stadig er fuldkommen besat af Shimamoto. Hun er alt det, han ikke har kunnet finde i nogen anden kvinde.”Lidt hen ad danske film som ‘Okay’ eller ‘Den eneste ene’.Og så er den dog så langt mere poetisk og tænksom, så eksotisk japansk: hård, skrøbelig, yndefuld.”Jyllands-Posten

Bogen er Murakamis femte roman på dansk. Den forener alle forfatterens bedste litterære træk, kærlighedshistorien, mysteriet om den forsvundne elskede, beskrivelsen af det moderne Japan set i både frø- og fugleperspektiv og endelig den stilfærdige, men dybdeborende undersøgelse af kærlighedens og længslens væsen.Sumire vil gerne være forfatter. Hun skriver også, hver dag, mange sider – og hun skriver godt, synes hendes bedste ven, der fortæller historien om hende. Der er bare det, at det ikke rigtig bliver til noget, det er alt for fragmentarisk, hendes idéer vil ikke føje sig sammen til et hele. Hun mangler livserfaring, siger hun, lidelse og lidenskab. Og så sker det. Hun møder den smukke, sytten år ældre kvinde Miu og oplever denne vilde længsel, dette heftige begær efter bare at mærke et andet menneskes hud. Hun siger ja til at arbejde for Miu, selv om hun så må lægge skriveriet på hylden, hun kan alligevel ikke skrive en linje, efter de har mødt hinanden.

"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" --Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers.

An upcoming book from Haruki Murakami with the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

El trepidante y esperado desenlace de La muerte del comendador (Libro 1) de Haruki Murakami. En el primer volumen, dejamos al protagonista deseoso de saber qué se oculta detrás del cuadro titulado La muerte del comendador. También ha aprendido a convivir con los extraños personajes y objetos que lo envuelven desde que se instaló en la casa en las montañas. Y, a petición de su vecino, ha empezado a esbozar el retrato de una peculiar adolescente, Marie Akikawa. Pero cuando ésta, una tarde en que regresaba del colegio, desaparece misteriosamente, el protagonista se lanzará en su busca. Y para encontrarla no dudará en enfrentarse a lo desconocido, y tampoco a los terribles dilemas a los que su aventura va a conducirle. ¿Qué le ocurrió en el pasado al autor del cuadro La muerte del comendador? ¿Quién es el hombre sin rostro?... En este segundo libro, de ritmo acelerado y lleno de suspense, las incógnitas sembradas en el anterior volumen van desvelándose, y encajan en el lugar que deben ocupar, como en un puzzle, para que el lienzo entero cobre pleno sentido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Killing Commendatore: Book 1, left the protagonist eager to know what is hidden behind the painting. By now, he has learned to live with the strange characters and objects that surround him in the quiet house in the mountains. And, at the request of his neighbor, he has begun to sketch the portrait of a peculiar teenager, Marie Akikawa. But when she mysteriously disappears while returning home from school, the protagonist sets out in search of her. And to find her, he will not hesitate to face the unknow, nor the terrible dilemmas to which his adventure will lead him. What happened in the past to the author of the painting Killing Commendatore? Who is the man without a face?... In this second book, with an accelerated pace and full of suspense, the unknowns planted in the previous volume are revealed, and fit into the place they should occupy, as in a puzzle, so that the entire canvas finally makes sense.

Únicamente en soledad, cuando el futuro es incierto, empieza el verdadero viaje. En plena crisis de pareja, un retratista de cierto prestigio abandona Tokio en dirección al norte de Japón. Confuso, sumido en sus recuerdos, deambula por el país hasta que, finalmente, un amigo le ofrece instalarse en una pequeña casa aislada, rodeada de bosques, que pertenece a su padre, un pintor famoso. En suma, un lugar donde retirarse durante un tiempo. En esa casa de paredes vacías, tras oír extraños ruidos, el protagonista descubre en un desván lo que parece un cuadro, envuelto y con una etiqueta en la que se lee: «La muerte del comendador». Cuando se decida a desenvolverlo se abrirá ante él un extraño mundo donde la ópera Don Giovanni de Mozart, el encargo de un retrato, una tímida adolescente y, por supuesto, un comendador, sembrarán de incógnitas su vida, hasta hace poco anodina y rutinaria. Este primer volumen de la novela La muerte del comendador es un fascinante laberinto donde lo cotidiano se ve invadido de señales indescifrables, de preguntas cuya respuesta todavía está lejos de vislumbrarse. El lector, al igual que el protagonista, deberá permanecer muy atento. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Only in solitude, when the future is uncertain, does the true journey begin. In the midst of a relationship crisis, a portrait painter of some prestige leaves Tokyo for the north of Japan. Confused, and immersed in his memories, he wanders around the country until, finally, a friend lets him use a small isolated house, surrounded by forests, that belongs to his father, a famous painter. In short, a place to retire for a while. In a house with empty walls, after hearing strange noises, the protagonist discovers what looks like a painting, wrapped and with a label that reads: "Killing Commendatore." When he decides to unwrap it, a strange world opens before him, where Mozart's Don Giovanni, the commission of a portrait, a shy teenager and, of course, a commander, will fill his life with questions, where there only used to be dullness and boredom. Killing Commendatore: Book 1 is a fascinating labyrinth where everyday life is plagued by indecipherable signs, by questions whose answers are still far from being glimpsed. The reader, like the protagonist, must remain very attentive.

Unas deliciosas conversaciones que contagian la pasión y el placer de escuchar la música con oídos nuevos. Todo el mundo sabe que a Haruki Murakami le apasiona tanto la música moderna y el jazz como la música clásica. Esta pasión no solo le llevó a regentar en su juventud un club de jazz, sino a impregnar de referencias y vivencias musicales la mayoría de sus novelas y obras. En esta ocasión, el escritor japonés más famoso del mundo comparte con sus lectores sus querencias, sus opiniones y, sobre todo, sus ansias de saber sobre un arte, el musical, que hermana a millones de seres humanos en todo el mundo. Para ello, a lo largo de dos años, Murakami y su amigo Seiji Ozawa, antiguo director de la Boston Symphony Orchestra, mantuvieron estas deliciosas conversaciones sobre conocidas piezas de Brahms y Beethoven, de Bartok y Mahler, sobre directores de orquesta como Leonard Bernstein y solistas excepcionales como Glenn Gould, sobre piezas de cámara y sobre ópera. Así, mientras escuchan discos y comentan distintas interpretaciones, el lector asiste a jugosas confidencias y curiosidades que le contagiarán el entusiasmo y el placer inacabable de disfrutar de la música con oídos nuevos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartók to Mahler, and from pop-up orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of some of their favorite performances, and Murakami questions Ozawa about his career conducting orchestras around the world. Culminating in Murakami's ten-day visit to the banks of Lake Geneva to observe Ozawa's retreat for young musicians, the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting, jazz clubs, orchestra halls, film scores, and much more. A deep reflection on the essential nature of both music and writing, Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.

Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall.

"Enchanting...intriguing [...] A wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone." --The Wall Street Journal Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into fifty languages. Now for the first time, his best-loved stories are available in manga form, in three independent volumes. These adaptations have been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a must-read for Murakami buffs and a quirky invitation into the writer's perspective and preoccupations for newcomers," while Book Riot says "Long-time fans are sure to appreciate this new approach to Murakami's work, while newcomers will find it an evocative introduction." With their trademark mix of realism and fantasy, centering around Murakami's signature themes of loss, remorse and confusion, the two stories in this volume are: Scheherazade: A man, Habara, is confined to his home, as though under house arrest. He is visited regularly by a woman, Scheherazade, who brings provisions then has sex with him. She tells him about a boy she was in love with in high school, and how she would break into his house. She starts re-enacting the break-ins, which further enhances their passion. At the end of the story, Habara anxiously awaits her next break-in and the continuing account of her youthful affair. "Tortured love affairs [...] are nothing new to Murakami's vast store of plotlines." --The New York TimesSleep: A housewife has not slept for many days, but her family doesn't notice. She stays up all night reading Anna Karenina and sees her surroundings through new eyes. Her sleeplessness provides freedom from a monotonous life looking after her husband and son. "A brilliant story that uses the liminality of the night to evoke the unease of being a woman in a patriarchal society." --The Guardian>*This volume is shrink-wrapped and recommended for readers ages 18+ due to mature themes and graphic content.*

‘Slowboat til Kina’ handler om en mand, der ser tilbage på sit liv og erindrer tre tilfældige møder med kinesere, alle bosat i Japan. Den første helt tilbage fra skoletiden, den anden en pige, som han arbejdede sammen med i et deltidsjob, den tredje en mand som sælger encyklopædier til andre kinesere, der bor i Tokyo.Hvad de tre umiddelbart tilfældige møder har med hinanden at gøre, giver Murakami som vanligt intet entydigt svar på. Men at visse tilfældige møder bliver siddende i erindringen, det står klart - og at livet er fuldt af missede muligheder, tab og fortrydelser. Og så handler novellen selvfølgelig om, hvor gådefuld en kraft erindringen er – og hvordan den skaber sine egne sære sammenhænge bagom ryggen på os.Novellen er oversat af Mette Holm og illustreret af Kamila Slocinska, som også tog livtag med Murakamis fortællerkraft i ‘Det hemmelige bibliotek’.Denne fixed layout-udgave gengiver det grafiske layout fra den trykte bog, og den egner sig bedst til større skærme.