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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
For major-league novelists, late-career works can sometimes feel like a greatest hits compilation, a phenomenon that can work for and against them. Sometimes, they end up producing anaemic rehashes of their most successful works, regurgitating images and stories that have occupied them for decades. Don DeLillo’s books over the past five to six years are a good example.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel
In the afterword to his latest novel, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a "limited pallet of motifs" to tell a "limited number of stories." It's a provocative claim for a prolific author, but particularly apt for this new work that revisits - and improves upon - his 1985 "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World." Murakami began writing "The City" in March 2020, and while it's no pandemic novel, its themes of...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Cory Oldweiler |Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel
In the afterword to his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a “limited pallet of motifs” to tell a “limited number of stories.” It’s a provocative claim for a prolific author, but particularly apt for this new work that revisits — and improves upon — his 1985 “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.” Murakami began writing “The City” in March 2020, and while it’s no pandemic novel, its themes of...
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
redhot.sg | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel |Olivia Ho
All done! This article is now fully available for youBook review: The City And Its Uncertain Walls a shadow of Haruki Murakami’s older, better works
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel
Haruki Murakami and his translator, Philip Gabriel, have crafted a BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA for more mature audiences. While Terabithia is strictly an imaginative play world for its protagonists, Murakami shrouds his dream town in titular uncertainty. On one end, like Terabithia, it’s how two hesitant young lovers express themselves.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel
In his recent memoir, Knife, about the 2022 attempt on his life, Salman Rushdie holds an imaginary conversation with his would-be assassin in which he distinguishes between his image among some religious zealots and his real self. To further illustrate this bifurcation, he cites “The Shadow,” a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen about a shadow that gains independence from the man casting it, eventually eclipsing the man.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Philip Gabriel |Rebecca Yarros |Sally Rooney
Astonishing, puzzling, and hallucinatory as only Murakami can be, and one of his most satisfying tales. Another beguilingly enigmatic tale from Murakami, complete with jazz, coffee, Borgesian twists, the Beatles, and other trademark motifs. In what is in many ways a bookend to 1Q84, Murakami blends science fiction, gothic novel, noir mystery, horror (think Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Pulse), and coming-of-age story.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Christina Orlando |Haruki Murakami |Jay Rubin |Philip Gabriel
It’s a great time to be a speculative fiction reader. We’re spoiled for choice—with masterful writers reworking classic tropes, challenging cultural perspectives, and taking us beyond our wildest imaginations, the landscape of SFF has never looked more bountiful. And the best part about it is that nerds love hard, so there is no shortage of shouting from rooftops about the books that we love. Part of the joy of loving a story is sharing that love with others.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Hiro Arikawa |Philip Gabriel
Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature’s way; a family is perplexed by their cat’s undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to...
