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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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by Haruki Murakami


  Fiction/978-0-375-72580-7

  WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING

  While training for the New York City Marathon, Haruki Murakami decided to keep a journal of his progress. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions with running and writing, full of vivid memories and insights, including the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the expanding population who find similar satisfaction in athletic pursuit.

  Memoir/Running/978-0-307-38983-1

  A WILD SHEEP CHASE

  A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard and appropriates its image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.

  Fiction/Literature/978-0-375-71894-6

  THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo.

  Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-77543-0

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