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- MURAKAMI BOOKS
Kafka On The Shore is, perhaps, the most hypnotic novel of Haruki Murakami. It has all the motifs of a Murakamisque novel- memory, journey into the unknown, alienation, people conversing with cats and music- and yet it is so different. Kafka On The Shore is the story of Kafka Tamura and Nakata. Kafka runs away from home at the age of fifteen.
in these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures.
The events of 1Q84 take place in Tokyo during a fictionalized year of 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, the second between July and September, and the third between October and December.
The book opens with a woman named Aomame (青豆) as she rides a taxi in Tokyo on her way to a work assignment. In the taxi, she hears the Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček playing over the car radio. She immediately recognizes the song and recalls details about the composer's life and the story behind the composition of the piece in vivid detail, though she does not understand how she was able to recall all this information. When the taxi gets stuck in a traffic jam on the Shibuya Route of the Shuto Expressway, the driver suggests that she get out of the car and climb down an emergency escape in order to make it to her important meeting, though he warns her that doing so might change the very nature of reality. After some hesitation, Aomame follows the driver's advice, climbing down the emergency staircase as those stuck in the traffic jam stare at her. Eventually, Aomame makes her way to a hotel in Shibuya and poses as a hotel attendant in order to kill a hotel guest. She performs the murder with an ice pick that leaves almost no trace on its victim, leading investigators to conclude that he died a natural death from heart failure. It is revealed that Aomame's job is to kill men who have done despicable things such as domestic violence.
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Demian, this prose-style piece of classical literature is written by German poet and novelist; Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) in the expressionistic year 1919. This masterpiece of a coming-of-age story touches the complex topics of existentialism, anxiety and insecurity, which many readers will be able to relate to.
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.
With millions of copies sold The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived. When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. This remarkable translation by Matthew Ward has been considered the definitive English version since its original publication.
ALMOND is a book about a young Korean boy with underdeveloped amygdalae, leading to a condition called "alexithymia," which is a brain disorder in which a person can't really identify with or even experience emotions in a normal way (their own or others). As a psychology major, we talked briefly about alexithymia but never understood by others.
“Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, written as he faced a terminal cancer diagnosis, is inherently sad. But it’s an emotional investment well worth making: a moving and thoughtful memoir of family, medicine and literature. It is, despite its grim undertone, accidentally inspiring.” —The Washington Post
Han tells the stories of survivors and victims of the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea.
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