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In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.

Searching for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend in contemporary Japan, the protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread, colliding with call girls, playing chap

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka

A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.

Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as th

Toru Watanabe, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic d

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel'a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan'from the award-winning, intern

In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write.

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himsel