Philip Gabriel Ordre des livres

How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will be granted a wish. But there's a catch: if they don't leave the castle by five o'clock, they will be punished. As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved.

The eight stories in this collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man

Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more. Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners -- one humble, one cheery, one ill-tempered -- Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes? Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling -- and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one's purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose. 'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a haunted underworld. A stunning work of imagination, Killing Commendatore is a surreal tale of love and loneliness, war and art.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his…

A Nagoya, ils étaient cinq amis, inséparables. L'un, Akamatsu, était surnommé Rouge ; Omi était Bleu ; Shirane était Blanche et Kurono, Noire. Tsukuru Tazaki, lui, était sans couleur. Puis Tsukuru a gagné Tokyo. Un jour, ils lui ont signifié qu'ils ne voulaient plus jamais le voir. Sans raison. Pendant seize ans, celui qui est devenu architecte a vécu séparé du monde. Avant de rencontrer Sara. Pour vivre cet amour, Tsukuru devra entamer son pèlerinage et confronter le passé pour comprendre ce qui a brisé le cercle.

Sous le double scintillement de 1084, le temps s'accélère et les vérités se confondent. La voix du détective Ushikawa s'invite, oscillant entre révélation et menace, sur la trace d'Aomamé et Tengo. D'un reflet à l'autre, dans la clairvoyance hypnotique de ce troisième volet, le passé s'apprête à livrer son chaos au seuil d'un nouveau rêve...

A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty? This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hotels and decaying seaside towns; a world of loneliness, violence and desperation. As the police close in on Yuichi and his new lover, the stories of the victim, the murderer and their families are uncovered. But these men and women are never what they appear to be...

Vol. 2: book three translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

Le 1er avril 1978, Murakami décide de vendre son club de jazz pour écrire un roman. Assis à sa table, il fume soixante cigarettes par jour et commence à prendre du poids. S'impose alors la nécessité d'une discipline. La course à pied lui permet de cultiver sa patience, sa persévérance. Courir devient une métaphore de son travail d'écrivain. Journal, essai, au fil de confidences inédites, Murakami nous livre une méditation lumineuse sur la vie, qui, comme la course, ne tire pas son sens de sa fin inéluctable.