Haruki Murakami | Observer

By Philip Weiss 2/01/99 12:00am

Another Spiritual Ghost Story From a Fine Japanese Realist

South of the Border, West of the Sun , by Haruki Murakami. Alfred A. Knopf, 205 pages, $22.

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has built an international following because his stories move so effortlessly between the surface reality of materialistic yuppie life and the horrors of a sensitized imagination. His tools are a flatly realistic Read More

By Philip Weiss 12/22/97 12:00am

Forget DeLillo and Pynchon-Murakami’s the Guy for Me

When it comes to reading, I’m a hit man. If a book doesn’t thrill me by page 5, it sleeps with the fishes. Often I ice them after a paragraph. Cold Mountain held me for 20 pages before I said, You’re beautiful, but I know where you want to take me and I’ve got plans, Read More

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Another Spiritual Ghost Story From a Fine Japanese Realist

Forget DeLillo and Pynchon-Murakami’s the Guy for Me

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