As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his
Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came
up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk, rock - and has more
than six thousand records at home.As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his
Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came
up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk, rock - and has more
than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music
all their own, much of it learned from jazz. Jay Rubin, a self-confessed fan,
has written a book for other fans who want to know more about this reclusive
writer. He reveals the autobiographical elements in Murakami's fiction, and
explains how he developed a distinctive new style in Japanese writing. In
tracing Murakami's career, he uses interviews he conducted with the author
between 1993 and 2001, and draws on insights and observations gathered from
over ten years of collaborating with Murakami on translations of his works.
