A boy and a girl fall in love; they are both teenagers. Their romance, depicted in the opening section of Haruki Murakami’s ...

After Dark Haruki Murakami, , trans. from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. . Knopf, $22 (191pp) ISBN 978-0-307-26583-8 Murakami's 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel.

If the novel’s first hundred pages are perplexing and somewhat tedious – Murakami throws his reader into this fantasy world without doing enough to make us interested in it – part two is ...

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.

A combination of mystery and plainspokenness has made Haruki Murakami's novels both successful and acclaimed. In his latest, writes Randy Boyagoda, an air of self-satisfaction throws off the balance.

Fans of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami queue to buy his new novel "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" at Kinokuniya bookstore in Shinjuku district early Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Tokyo.

Celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami will release his first new novel in six years this April, publisher Shinchosha announced on Wednesday. There was little detail given about the new work ...

TOKYO (AP) — A new Haruki Murakami novel will be published in April and the publisher is saying little about it except that the Japanese manuscript is around 1,200 pages and the plot involves ...

Celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami will release his first new novel in six years this April, publisher Shinchosha announced on Wednesday.

TOKYO (AP) — Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city when he was fresh off his debut. More than four decades later, as a seasoned and acclaimed novelist, he gave it a new life as “The ...