"The author, 64, became a household name in his native country with his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood. A departure from his earlier work, its use of realism and simple plotting helped him to reach a larger audience and established Murakami as the voice of the Japanese baby-boomer generation. The book was adapted for the screen in 2010 by French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung. His eagerly awaited latest novel, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, was published in Japan in April and sold more than one million copies in its first month of release. Similar in tone and style to Norwegian Wood, it tells the story of a man struggling with a traumatic event in his past, who uses a romance to get back on his feet." telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10322801/Haruki-Murakami-is-bookmakers-favourite-for-Nobel-Prize.html
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:53:19 +0000
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