Word: haruki
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BOOK The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami "Engrossing, compelling, charming...
Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf...
What may strike us as most remarkable about contemporary authors Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami is the relative familiarity of the world they write about - the fact that they don't seem tortured by the question of Japan's position relative to the rest of the world. When the heroine of Yoshimoto's Kitchen mixes Japanese and French dishes in her menus, she's not making a point about cultural miscegenation. The deadpan Yoshimoto seems to be merely reporting how people eat in Tokyo...