Cuando Tsukuru Tazaki era adolescente, le gustaba sentarse en las estaciones a ver pasar los trenes. Ahora, con treinta y seis anos, es un ingeniero que disena y construye estaciones de tren, pero en el fondo no ha dejado de ver pasar los trenes.
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo,....
Im Frühling ihres zweiundzwanzigsten Lebensjahres verliebte sich Sumire zum allerersten Mal. Heftig und ungezügelt, wie ein Wirbelsturm über eine weite Ebene rast, fegte diese Liebe über sie hinweg.
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.
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.
In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects.
Von Männern, die keine Frauen haben versammelt sieben neue Erzählungen Murakamis – »long short stories«, die wohl zum Zartesten und Anrührendsten zählen, das je von ihm zu lesen war.