He submitted his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing to Gunzo magazine and won its 1979 Newcomers Award. Just as the ball flew into left field, Murakami thought, "I could write a novel." He bought a pen and paper on his way home from the game and started writing that night. The Swallows' first batter, American Dave Hilton, hit a double his first time at bat.
It was April 1978, and Murakami was at a baseball game watching the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carps. The story behind Murakami's decision to become a writer has become lore among his fans. Murakami continued running the club after graduating from Waseda in March 1975. Before graduating from Waseda University, he and his new wife opened a jazz club called Peter Cat. Scott Fitzgerald, and Kurt Vonnegut), jazz, rock 'n' roll, and film. He spent a good amount of time pursuing his interests in Western literature (especially the novels of Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, F. He made good grades despite a laissez-faire attitude toward teachers and studying. From an early age, Murakami was drawn to the works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, preferring them to writers of classic Japanese literature. His parents taught high school Japanese literature and allowed their only child to read whatever he wanted. Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949, in Kyoto, Japan. According to the Washington Post, Kafka on the Shore is "an excellent demonstration of why deservedly famous postmodern fiction that's actually fun to read." The New York Times Book Review enthused, "Anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Kafka on the Shore marks another critical and popular success for Murakami. The familiar themes of isolation, reality versus fantasy, and the connection between past and present are handled with Murakami's trademark humor. The myth of Oedipus is thrown in along with a cast of supporting characters that includes an old man who talks to cats, a female hemophiliac who lives as a gay man, and two World War II soldiers trapped in time.
Murakami's intention was to write a story about a boy who escapes his dangerous father and goes in search of his long-lost mother. The story is rich in references to music and Western culture, dreamy scenarios that expose the spooky underbelly of ordinary life, utterly unadorned language, and elements of magical realism that challenge the reader's grasp of reality. For the most part, though, Kafka on the Shore is classic Murakami. While most of Murakami's protagonists are thirty-something men who favor isolation and have unremarkable histories with women, the main character in this novel is a fifteen-year-old runaway. Kafka on the Shore (2005), Haruki Murakami's tenth novel, marks a slight departure from his previous work.
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