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"Il protagonista e un giovane giapponese che ha appena lasciato volontariamente il lavoro in uno studio di avvocati. È felicemente sposato con una donna in carriera. Tutto ha inizio da due episodi insignificanti: il gatto di casa scompare e l''uomo riceve la telefonata anonima di una donna che con voce sensuale gli chiede un incontro. A partire da quel momento la sua vita, fino ad allora normalissima, inizia a subire una strana trasformazione. Intorno a lui compaiono personaggi sempre piu strani, e la realta - il reale - inizia a degradarsi in qualcosa di fantasmagorico. "

Entre rêve et cauchemar, Haruki Murakami nous livre une nouvelle inédite, hypnotique, grinçante, superbement mise en image par la talentueuse illustratrice allemande Kat Menschik, qui restitue à merv

El muchacho solo quiere devolver dos libros y rebuscar un poco entre las estanterías. Pero en la sala de lectura se topa con el extraño bibliotecario, un anciano furibundo que lo introduce en el laberinto de la biblioteca, y alli lo encierra. En la mazmorra de papel recibe deliciosos manjares, servidos por un misterioso hombre-oveja y una bella muchacha muda. Poco a poco percibe que los limites entre los objetos, las personas y los espacios son cada vez mas difusos. Una pesadilla kafkiana y al mismo tiempo una sensible historia sobre la perdida y la soledad. Murakami construye un relato sutil acompañado por las turbadoras ilustraciones de Kat Menschik.

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ''red pine'', and Oumi, ''blue sea'', while the girls'' names were Shirane, ''white root'', and Kurono, ''black field''. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.One day Tsukuru Tazaki''s friends announced that they didn''t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

Au Japon, à Nagoya et à Tokyo, de nos jours et seize ans plus tôt. Depuis le mois de juillet de sa deuxième année d''université jusqu''au mois de janvier de l''année suivante, Tsukuru Tazaki vécut e

A Nagoya abitano cinque ragazzi, tre maschi e due femmine, che tra i sedici e i vent'anni vivono la piu perfetta e pura delle amicizie. Almeno fino al secondo anno di universita, quando uno di loro, Tazaki Tsukuru, riceve una telefonata dagli altri: non deve piu cercarli. Da quel giorno, senza nessuna spiegazione, non li vedra mai piu: non ci saranno mai piu ore e ore passate a parlare di tutto e a confidarsi ogni cosa, mai piu pomeriggi ad ascoltare la splendida Shiro suonare Liszt, mai piu Tsukuru avra qualcuno di cui potersi fidare. Il dolore e cosi lacerante che nel cuore del ragazzo si spalanca un abisso che solo il desiderio di morire e in grado di colmare. Dopo sei mesi trascorsi praticamente senza mangiare ne uscire di casa, nelle tenebre di un'infelicita senza desideri, Tzukuru torna faticosamente alla vita ma scopre di essere cambiato. Non solo nel fisico - piu magro, dai lineamenti piu duri e taglienti - ma anche, soprattutto, nell'animo. Ancora oggi, quando ormai ha trentasei anni, continua a vivere con l'ombra di quel rifiuto che lo accompagna sempre, come una musica che resta sospesa nell'aria anche quando non c'e piu nessuno a suonarla. L'incontro con Sara, che intuisce l'inquietudine nascosta dietro l'apparente ordinarieta di Tsukuru, sara l'occasione per rispondere a quelle domande che per sedici anni l'hanno ossessionato ma che non ha mai avuto il coraggio di affrontare.

"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, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, 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. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.

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''All I did was go to the library to borrow some books''.On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake.Led to a special ''reading room'' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn''t returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy''s brains. How will he escape?

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakamia fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami''s wild imagination.

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''I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.''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 vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic

A dazzling new collection of short storiesthe first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.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 vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

This title includes a reading guide. 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 inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. This title includes a reading guide. 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 inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. Hide