{"product_id":"birthday-girl-9781787301252","title":"Birthday Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Haruki Murakami\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Random House Uk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvill Secker\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAbsolutely On Music\u003c\/i\u003e, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMen Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Uk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46946040348823,"sku":"9781787301252","price":82.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781787301252.webp?v=1772190884","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/birthday-girl-9781787301252","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}