In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hearthe Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard–Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was NorwegianWood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hearthe Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard–Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was NorwegianWood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.
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