title: A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
author: The Japan Foundation
description: <DIV>The Japan Foundation, the only organization in Japan engaged in international cultural exchange in every region of the world, is contributing to world peace by promoting dialogue and interaction between Japanese and other peoples through the medium of culture. It consists of 19 overseas offices in 18 countries, with headquarters in Tokyo, an office in Kyoto and two language institutes.</DIV>
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  FICTION
  
  
  **AFTER DARK**
  
  
  **AFTER THE QUAKE**
  
  
  **BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN**
  
  
  **DANCE DANCE DANCE**
  
  
  **THE ELEPHANT VANISHES**
  
  
  **HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD**
  
  
  **KAFKA ON THE SHORE**
  
  
  **NORWEGIAN WOOD**
  
  
  **SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN**
  
  
  **SPUTNIK SWEETHEART**
  
  
  **A WILD SHEEP CHASE**
  
  
  **THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE**  
    
    
    
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  **UNDERGROUND: THE TOKYO GAS ATTACK**  
   **AND THE JAPANESE PSYCHE**
  
  
  **WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING:**
  
  
  **A MEMOIR**
  
  
  
  
  
  # A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work
  has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his
  many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients
  include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.
  
  
  
  
  
  ![](images/Mura_9780307957023_epub_017_r1.jpg)
  
  
  ![](images/Mura_9780307957023_epub_018_r1.jpg)
  
  
  ![](images/Mura_9780307957023_epub_019_r1.jpg)
  
  
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