Tag: literature

19. Sep 2011

A female serial killer’s literary roots: Murakami Haruki, 1Q84 and Aomame

InFocus, Japan, literature

Five years after the long novel Kafka on the shore, Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s trilogy 1Q84 was published in Japan in 2009-10 where it quickly became a bestseller. With details of the book kept strictly secret prior to its release, anticipating Murakami readers had to satisfy their curiosity with train posters such as the above. […]

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