Haruki Murakami writes literary fiction in which ordinary routines often open into dreamlike or unexplained situations. Norwegian Wood is one of his more realistic novels, following Toru Watanabe's memories of love, friendship and loss in late-1960s Tokyo, while Kafka on the Shore combines the stories of a teenage runaway and an older man who can communicate with cats. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle moves from a missing cat and troubled marriage into strange encounters, wartime memories and spaces that seem to operate outside everyday reality. Murakami often uses first-person narrators, music, solitary urban characters and abrupt shifts between the mundane and surreal. His books can be quiet and reflective even when their plots become strange, placing them across contemporary literary fiction, magical realism and surreal fiction alongside writers such as Yoko Ogawa and David Mitchell. Read more Less
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