After the year 2000, 1Q84 became one of the most popular and best-selling books. Book 1 and 2 were released in 2009, and Book 3 was unexpectedly released in 2010. Many readers assumed that 1Q84 ended with Book 2. Two main parts with two main characters, Aomame and Tengo, are followed concurrently. This story also provides context for some serious incidents in Japan. Little People in this book is sometimes compared to Big Brother in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Killing Commendatore, was published in Japan in 2017, approximately 7 years after his previous novel, 1Q84. Because of a disagreement with his wife, the 36-year-old protagonist moves to a mountain studio. His new life will be filled with strange people and events.

The ninth novel by Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart debuted in 1999. It is sometimes regarded as the novel in which Haruki’s first-person story is taken into account. The protagonist, who is more of a narrator, falls in love with a girl named Sumire at university. However, she has a crush on someone else, and they are drifting apart. The book’s title is derived from the Soviet Union’s 1957 spacecraft launch.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

Going back to the beginnings of Haruki Murakami as a novelist, Hear the Wind Sing was published in 1979. He finished the first book after closing his own jazz bar. The main character decides to start writing when he is 29 years old, the same age as the author. It’s almost as if Haruki Murakami is reflecting himself in the character. His second novel, Pinball (1973, follows the story of Hear the Wind Sing.

A Wild Sheep Chase is the third installment of his early novels, which include Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, 1973, A Wild Sheep Chase, and Dance Dance Dance. The plot follows the protagonist’s adventures chasing a sheep in Tokyo and Hokkaido. He also goes through a difficult breakup.

In 2002, one of Haruki Murakami’s masterpieces was published in Japan. The New York Times named Kafka on the Shore one of the “10 Best Books of 2005,” and it won the World Fantasy Award in 2006. He used the opportunity provided by his international reputation to establish himself as a writer all over the world. In this novel, a lonely 15-year-old Kafka embarks on his journey to become an independent adult.

Norwegian Wood, one of Haruki Murakami’s most famous books, is the best-selling novel and has been translated into the most languages in the world. He classifies the book as realism and romance. The plot continues as 37-year-old Toru Watanabe reflects on the 1960s. Norwegian Wood is based on his short story “Firefly” from 1983.

Dance Dance Dance was the final installment of the “Tetralogy of the Rat” and was released in 1988. The book is set in a world four years after the previous installment, A Wild Sheep Chase. The unnamed protagonist leads a secure life as a freelance writer, but he is missing something valuable. The Sheep Man is an important character in both the novel and A Wild Sheep Chase.

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off.

One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress’s uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she’s asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant’s reclusive owner.

Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami’s 70th birthday.

When a man’s favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple’s midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald’s; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible—even death. In every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.