Ujval's Lounge

Resting in Lounge…..

Tag Archives: Haruki Murakami

Book Review: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 27, 2011

Name: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Author: Haruki Murakami Genre: Fiction Language: English (Originally in Japanese) Pages: 400 (Paperback) Awards: – Tanizaki Prize Movies: – Buy: FlipKart, Amazon My Rating:   His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind- Gaurdian  A remarkable writer… He captures the [...]

Fiction , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Book Review : After Dark

2 Comments Posted by on September 27, 2011

Name: After Dark Author: Haruki Murakami Genre: Fiction Language: English (Originally in Japanese) Pages: 201 (Paperback) Awards: – Movies: – Buy: FlipKart, Amazon My Rating:  The novel delivers gloriously… Inventive and alluring – David Mitchell, Gaurdian Hypnotic, Spell Binding – The Times Alienation is the central theme in this novel set in metropolitan Tokyo over the course of [...]

Fiction , , , , , , , ,

Book Review : The Elephant Vanishes

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 23, 2011

Name: The Elephant Vanishes Author: Haruki Murakami Genre: Short Story Language: English (Originally in Japanese) Pages: 327 # of Stories: 17 Theatrical Adaptation : “Sleep” “The Second Bakery Attack” and the title story by British theatre company Complicite and Many More.. Buy: FlipKart, Amazon My Rating : A remarkable writer… he captures the common ache [...]

book review, Short Story , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tired…??

4 Comments Posted by on January 5, 2011

“People soon get tired of things that aren’t boring, but not of what is boring.” – Haruki Murakami (Kafka On The Shore) Indeed…After completion of engineering, we have passion to do something in our field and very soon we get tired… Every year, we start something new with Passion and Enthusiasm but in some time [...]

Golden Rule, Motivational , , , ,

Spellbinding…Addictive…Wonderful

1 Comment Posted by on October 30, 2010

Hi, “Spellbinding”…”Addictive”…”Wonderful”…That’s the comments “Kafka on the Shore” got by different journals or news papers. Haruki Murakami‘s this work counted in “1000 novels you must have to read before you die”. They all are right, not because they are good reviewers than me and I am just following them but I read it twice. This [...]

Fiction , , , , , , , , , ,

Completed 2 : “After The Quake” and “The Naked Face”

4 Comments Posted by on July 20, 2010

Hey Friends, I have completed more 2 books from different authors, “After the Quake” – written by Haruki Murakami and “The Naked Face” – written by Sidney Sheldon. After The Quake This is a collection of stories written in response to Japan’s 1995 Kobe earthquake and each story peripherally by the disaster. Central character of [...]

Fiction , , ,

Operation Novel 2010

4 Comments Posted by on January 8, 2010

Hi All, Every one wished to each other on 31st December, put lots of post on web and becomes busy in their life… I am late as usual this time too…. so Happy New Year To All… I have prepared different plan for 2010 and Operation Novel 2010 is part of that plan. Check out [...]

Rock On , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sputnik Sweetheart

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 30, 2009

Hi,      I have completed one more novel of Haruki Murakami [I have read it because I haven't any other options to read]. There is no doubt in Haruki in greatness in literature but I will not say, it’s great book of Haruki as I said for “Norwegian Wood“. Like most of authors follow some [...]

Fiction , , , , ,

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 11, 2009

Hi,       “South of the Border, West of the Sun” is 1992 novel, written by “The Franz Kafka Prize” winner Haruki Murakami and translated from Japanese to English in 1999 by Philip Gabriel.       Like Norwegian Wood, South of the border refers song sung by Nat King Cole. Hajime, Protagonist of Novel, and his childhood friend Shimamoto were [...]

Fiction, Short Story , , , , , ,

Norwegian Wood

4 Comments Posted by on August 5, 2009

Hi, “Norwegian wood” is a 1987 novel by “The Franz Kafka Prize winner”, Haruki Murakami and translated from Japanese to English by Jay Rubin in 2000. Murakami is considered as an important figure in postmodern literature. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Toru, who looks back when he hears his first love Naoko’s favorite Beatle [...]

Fiction , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.