Truth. No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. These lines are from ā Norwegian Wood
The quest for knowledge takes an unexpected turn in Haruki Murakamiās The Strange Library, published for the first time in English this December. Get a sneak preview of Ted GoossenāsHaruki Murakami is a well-known Japanese writer living in the United States, deeply influenced by Western writers and works; and even many of his English novels have been translated back into Haruki Murakami: āThe repetition itself becomes the important thing.ā In a 2004 interview , Murakami discussed his physical and mental habitsā¦ When Iām in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. Reading a Murakami story is like being on a roller-coaster ride. We never know where it'll take us next. Sure, there are quite many twists and turns; one runs and glides through jazz, earthquakes and mountains, a female pathologist and a male taxi driver, the swimming pool, a failed marriage and feelings of hatred, isolation and loss, dreams and the subliminal, and in the end, an ominous hes very different from Haruki Murukami but excellent. his best books are Coin Locker Babies and Almost Transparent Blue, but those are harder weirder reads. hes kind of like the japanese Brett Easton Ellis, lots of sex and violence, but his writing ability is insane, he is deeply gifted, Almost Transparent Blue won him one of the biggest
Haruki Murakami's 2008 novella about a young student trapped in an eerie library has just been translated into English. Critic Alan Cheuse calls it awfully weird and utterly down to earth.
Murakami, his message delivered, closed by thanking his readership - a special thing indeed from a man who does not make a habit of accepting awards in person. "I am grateful to you, Israelis, for robpNE2.