What is the best book of Haruki Murakami? The question is not simple ...

The best book Haruki Murakami is determined by each reader individually. He is an acting classic, and each of his creations is unique in its own way. Mystical lovers will like the novel "Hunting for sheep," where the paranormal essence of the "sheep", infiltrating people, destroys their personalities. In the readers' reviews of the American publication, Haruki was called neither "a mythmaker of the millennium."

Fans of fantasy like "Wonderland without brakes ...", where the reader will meet with the city of prisoners and a hero with unusual abilities. Rioters and people who prefer to "go against the current" will choose the novel "Norwegian Forest". The last novel marked the author's fame in Japan and personal financial status. The circulation of the publication was 2 million copies! Reader's reviews mark this book as the most realistic among all the works of his authorship.

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The best book Haruki Murakami, according to the New York Times, is the fantasy novel Kafka on the Beach, which tells of the adventures and emotional experiences of Tamura, 15, who left the house. Readers define the meaning of this book as a saga of loneliness. Spiritual loneliness of a man is often far-fetched. So Tamura thinks up a like-minded person - the Crow, and in any woman subconsciously searches for the deceased mother or like-minded sister (whom he did not have). In fact, as noted by those who read the novel, this feeling is subjective. In reality, a lonely person should pay more attention to the bright people with whom he meets in life.

According to Russian publishers, the palm tree in the works of Murakami belongs to the best-selling three-volume novel "A Thousand Barely Eighty-Four". In this work, many social problems of the 21st century were reflected . "The best book of Haruka Murakami is the one that brought the greatest revenue!" - say booksellers, and in their own way will also be right.

Faithful connoisseurs of his work, as is customary in their midst, will prefer the author's latest, sensational novel "The Colorless Tzuki Tsukuru and the years of his wanderings", about the reassessment of his personality by a 36-year-old engineer overcoming the crisis of middle age. They will also be joined by the age category of readers, arguing that the best book of Haruka Murakami is this novel.

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There are also such readers who prefer all the author's works the novel "The Chronicles of the Clockwork Bird", which tells of the search for his own "I" by the former clerk of the law firm Toru Okada and the restoration of his own ruined world.

People are attracted to the book the ability of the main character to "go beyond", to look at his being from a different angle.

It is noteworthy that almost all readers of his novels distinguish the lightness and imagery of the author's style of the writer. From his books it's really hard to break away.

Literary scholars know that Haruka Murakami wrote dynamically the best books. Readers' comments are favorable to the works of this author, written everywhere he lived and worked:

• In the Tokyo region of Kokubunji;
• While living in Europe (in Italy, Greece, Britain);
• In the United States (in the state of New Jersey, and then - in California);
• Returning home.

The beginning of creativity Murakami. Signed books

Millions of readers in the world are devoted lovers of his work. Although there are some who are not impressed by his particular Eastern logic. Writer Haruki Murakami became completely unique. It happened on a whim. He, a thirty-year-old guy, keen on jazz and marathon, somehow playing baseball, suddenly felt the vocation - writing prose. I felt the urge to create clearly and motivatingly. It was this that prompted him to write. The first work of the Japanese, the novel "Listen to the song of the wind," was published and awarded a literary prize. It was followed by the novel "Pinball 1973". However, Murakami estimates these two works as "a test of his pen." The author himself considers the novel "Hunting for sheep" to be the first creative success. In the readers' opinion, the author succeeded in creating an atmosphere of unpredictability in the novel.

The very name of the book in the context of Japanese morphology contains an atypical moment: nouns in the Land of the Rising Sun are extremely rarely used in the plural. The fact that the word "sheep" is used, and not "sheep", for the Japanese already means uncertainty, the unknown consequences.

In America, where he was invited to Princeton University (American Center for the Study of Foreign Cultures and Literatures), the writer felt the need to write about Japan. Indeed, the fate of the creators is paradoxical. While in Japan, he closely followed the culture of the West, and having left for the West, he began to write about his homeland.

Over the Atlantic, his transition to a qualitatively new stage of creativity. The basis for this was the writer's new vision of his native Japanese realities - through the eyes of a Westerner. Although, on the other hand, the writer was comfortable in the US. He worked hard on the university field, becoming an adjunct professor at Princeton University. His works are published in multi-million copies.

Best Writer of Japan Returns

However, a year later, after writing the Chronicle of the Clockwork Bird, in 1995, the writer suddenly returns to Japan. Apparently, the heart of the writer - the grandson of a Buddhist priest and the son of a scholar-philologist for inhuman sarinov attack of the criminal sect Aum Shinrikyo in the Tokyo metro and the earthquake that practically destroyed the city of his childhood Kobe (Hyogo Prefecture) - was thus recalled.

The writer decided to live in Japan, and he settled in 1996 in Tokyo. The American experience of publicity has allowed to become the leading sharp publicistic TV programs of Haruki Murakami. He writes his famous "Podzemka" - collected interviews of more than 70 people who suffered from the hands of fanatics and murderers in the subway. Comments on the works of this author of a documentary nature (he was engaged in prose for the evil of the day) were at that time the most numerous. Readers noted that Murakami the documentary is as versatile and profound as Murakami the novelist ...

Working on television in the 90s made him one of the most popular people in his country. In 2001, he created the extremely popular in Japan collection of stories "Radio Murakami", written in the style of frank and warm conversation with the reader.

At home in his homeland western (primarily American) classics - works by Raymond Carver, Francis Fitzgerald, John Irving - translates into Japanese Haruki Murakami. Book reviews, which lead the international ratings of classical literature, written by Murakami, become for millions of Japanese a guide to the world of books. For example, the circulation "The Catcher in the Rye" in his translation was bought up in Japan no worse than any bestseller.

Literary popularization work of the classic is invariably in the center of attention of the readership of Japan. Many letters are written to him, and he, forced to keep the secretary for their sorting, answers them whenever possible.

Instead of confinement. Murakami develops postmodernism

However, at the beginning of the 21st century, working primarily in the documentary genre, the classic did not at all distance himself from artistic prose, from the style of postmodernity. Just took a break. Connoisseurs of his creativity waited ... And they were not mistaken. Murakami as a creator of novels changes continuously and conceptually. It seems that his creativity with age, like good wine, is only enriched.

Since 2008, he worked on an innovative novel about our semi-virtual world. The idea of "absorbing all the chaos" of our life and showing how it develops is embodied in the trilogy "Thousand Unknown". As always convincing in an attempt to comprehend the laws of the ephemeral reality of Haruki Murakami. Reviews of the writer's works have never been so enthusiastic. The very first edition of the first part of the trilogy was sold out in just 9 hours! The theme of the search for psychological reference points was in demand in a cosmopolitan world of eroded moral, social, and spiritual values.

And in 2013 the reading public again buys circulation, but already the next novel - "Colorless Tsuku Tadzaki and the years of his wanderings."

What is his creative secret? When the journalists once again ask him such a question, Haruki Murakami, once again smiling, replies: "Well, of course, in jazz!" (It is well known that he adores and constantly listens to this music). And then the master, after a pause, adds: "If it were not for him, I, perhaps, would not have written anything ..."