Birthday Stories

What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. Including stories by Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Raymond Carver…

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore adalah novel memikat dengan dua tokoh utama yang sangat mengagumkan: bocah lelaki belasan tahun, Kafka Tamura, yang semenjak usia empat tahun telah ditinggalkan ibu dan kakak perempuannya; dan orang tua bernama Nakata, yang tidak dapat pulih dari peristiwa sial yang menimpanya di masa Perang Dunia II. Kafka Tamura merupakan gambaran lain dari sosok Oedipus, Raja Thebes yan…

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present.

Men Without Women

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wr…

Norwegian Wood

Toru, 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 death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retrea…

Tsukuru Tazaki Tanpa Warna dan Tahun Ziarahnya

TSUKURU TAZAKI punya empat sahabat karib di SMA. Kebetulan, semua nama mereka menyiratkan warna. Dua laki-laki yang masing-masing dipanggil Akamatsu yang berarti ‘pinus merah’ dan Oumi yang berarti ‘laut biru’. Sementara nama para gadis berturut-turut Shirane, ‘akar putih’, dan Kurono, ‘ladang hitam’. Dan Tazaki satu-satunya nama belakang yang tidak memuat warna. Suatu hari t…

Monkey: New Writing from Japan vol. 1: Food

The Peach Itō Threw Rots, and She Becomes a Beast Once Again a chapter from a novel by Hiromi Itō translated by Jeffrey Angles Good Stories Originate in the Caves of Antiquity Haruki Murakami in conversation with Mieko Kawakami translated by Ted Goossen The Razor a story by Naoya Shiga with remarks by Hirokazu Koreeda translated by Ted Goossen Fujito: A Noh Play from the mod…

1Q84 : Jilid 1

Sekarang tahun 1Q84. Ini adaloh dunia sejati, tak oda keraguan akan hoi itu. Tapi di dunia ini, ada dua bulon menggantung di langit. Di dunia ini, takdir dua manusia, Tengo dan Aomame berkelindan erat. Masing-masing dengan caranya sendiri terlibat dalam sesuatu yang mengundang bahaya. Dan di dunia ini, tampaknya tak ada cara untuk menyelamatkan keduanya. Sesuatu yang dahsyatnya sedang bergerak

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami menulis novel ini pada tahun 1987, mengisahkan Toru Watanabe yang bernostalgia tentang masa lalunya pada masa dia berkuliah. Toru adalah tipe orang berteman hanya dengan beberapa orang, senang membaca buku, dan menjalani hidup seperti orang kebanyakan. Toru watanabe belajar di kampus di mana nilai-nilai ideal diperjuangkan mahasiswa, menuntut adanya revolusi. Toru sama sekali ti…

Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World

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.

Kafka on the Shore

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Norwegian Wood

Ketika ia mendengar Norwegian Wood karya Beatles, Toru Watanabe terkenang akan Naoko, gadis cinta pertamanya, yang kebetulan juga kekasih mendiang sahabat karibnya, Kizuki. Serta-merta ia merasa terlempar ke masa-masa kuliah di Tokyo, hampir 20 tahun silam, terhanyut dalam dunia pertemanan yang serba pelik, seks bebas, nafsu-nafsi, dan rasa hampa--hingga ke masa seorang gadis badung, Midori, me…

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The Elephant Vanishes

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a M…

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned…