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.

Haruki Murakami's novels aren’t just books; they’re gateways into strange, beautiful worlds where reality often blurs into ...

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.

The result is a book that’s assured, candid and often — never meet your heroes, they say — deeply irritating. Murakami’s greatness as a novelist is incontestable.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 “a story that ...