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The "pilgrimage" of Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," translates literally as a "reverent perambulation." In this traditional Japanese practice, ...

Haruki Murakami’s “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” begins with a simple premise: A Tokyo railroad engineer, the Tsukuru Tazaki of the novel’s title, unable to get over the summer ...

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The last time Haruki Murakami wrote a book, it was 1157 pages long. With 1Q84, Murakami seemed determined to expand the possibilities of serious literature. In a profile of Murakami for The New York ...

is the latest novel by Haruki Murakami. In Japan, when his books are released, fans wait for hours in line to get a copy. I had not read any of Murakami’s novels before, and as soon as I started to ...

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“Poets die adolescents,” Robert Lowell wrote, and it’s supposed to be romantic. Personally I think it sounds like hell. Just imagine: never growing out of your teenage rawness to the world, your ...