Kirby Heyborne
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels, that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age, the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism.
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English
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A boy visits a library on his way home from school. An old man takes the boy hostage and forces him to memorize a large number of books. The boy eventually realizes that the man plans to absorb the information he's memorized by eating his brain. With the help of a strange girl and a man dressed as a sheep, the captive devises an escape plan.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A portrait painter deals with the upcoming divorce from his wife by moving into an old house in rural Japan that used to belong to a famous artist.
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