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Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. His work has received numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.

Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). He has also translated into Japanese works by writers including Raymond Carver and J. D. Salinger. His fiction, sometimes criticized by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness" he weaves into his narratives. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.

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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.
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Udgivelsesdato01 mar. 2013
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ISBN epub9788771292510
ISBN lydbog9788771290301