Haruki Murakami
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Novels by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's <i>The Thieving Magpie</i>, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.


Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent.