村上春樹 | Haruki Murakami
Legal name: 村上 春樹
Transliterated name: Murakami, Haruki
Birth place: Kyoto, Japan
Birth date: 12 January 1949
Language: Japanese
Bibliographic comments: See also under general anthologies. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize.
Biographic comments:
Novels
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1985
Library edition: 2003 edition, 16th printing
Vintage
ISBN 978-0-0994-4878-5
Trade paperback, 400 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
Collections
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
2006
Library edition: 2007 edition, 16th printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-0-0994-8866-8
Trade paperback, 436 pages
£9.99
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (partially determined).
Fiction: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman // Birthday Girl // New York Mining Disaster // Aeroplane: or, How He Talked
to Himself As If Reciting Poetry // The Mirror // A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism
// Hunting Knife // A Perfect Day for Kangaroos // Dabchick // Man-Eating Cats // A 'Poor Aunt' Story // Nausea
1979 // The Seventh Man // The Year of Spaghetti // Tony Takitani // The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes // The Ice
Man // Crabs // Firefly // Chance Traveller // Hanalei Bay // Where I'm Likely to Find It // The Kidney-Shaped
Stone That Moves Every Day // A Shinagawa Monkey
After Dark
2004
Library edition: 2007, 1st UK edition, 1st printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-8465-5047-8
Hardcover, 201 pages
£14.99
Notes:
• Translated by Jay Rubin.
Kafka on the Shore
2002
Library edition: January 2005, 1st UK edition, 9th printing
The Harvill Press
ISBN 1-8434-3110-6
Hardcover, 505 pages
£12.99
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel.
after the quake
2000
Library edition: 2003 edition, 12th printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-0-0994-4856-3
Trade paperback, 132 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Translated by Jay Rubin.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: UFO in Kushiro // Landscape with Flatiron // All God's Children Can Dance // Thailand // Super-Frog Saves
Tokyo // Honey Pie
1Q84: Book One and Book Two
2009 / 2009
Library edition: October 2011, 1st UK edition, 1st printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-8465-5407-0
Hardcover, 623 pages
£20.00
Notes:
• '1Q84' series #1–#2.
• Translated by Jay Rubin.
1Q84: Book Three
2010
Library edition: October 2011, 1st UK edition, 1st printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-8465-5405-6
Hardcover, 364 pages
£14.00
Notes:
• '1Q84' series #3.
• Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
2013
Library edition: August 2014, 1st UK edition, 4th printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-8465-5833-7
Hardcover, 290 pages
£20.00
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel.
The Strange Library
2005
Library edition: December 2014, first US edition, 1st printing
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 978-0-3853-5430-1
Trade paperback, 96 pages
$18.00
Notes:
• Translated by Ted Goossen.
• Illustrated US edition, released simultaneously with the UK edition.
The Elephant Vanishes
1993
Library edition: 2003 edition, 10th printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-0-0994-4875-4
Trade paperback, 327 pages
£7.99
Notes:
• Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women // The Second Bakery Attack // The Kangaroo Communiqué // On
Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning // Sleep // The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian
Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds // Lederhosen // Barn Burning // The Little
Green Monster // Family Affair // A Window // TV People // A Slow Boat to China // The Dancing Dwarf // The
Last Lawn of the Afternoon // The Silence // The Elephant Vanishes
The Strange Library
2005
Library edition: December 2014, first UK edition, 2nd printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-1-8465-5921-1
Hardcover, 77 pages
£12.99
Notes:
• Translated by Ted Goossen.
• Illustrated UK edition, released simultaneously with the US edition.
Men Without Women
2014
Library edition: May 2017 edition, 6th printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-1-9112-1537-0
Hardcover, 228 pages
£16.99
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: Drive My Car // Yesterday // An Independent Organ // Scheherazade // Kino // Samsa in Love // Men
Without Women
Desire
2017
Library edition: June 2017 edition, 7th printing
Vintage UK
ISBN 978-1-78487-263-2
Paperback, 109 pages
£3.50
Notes:
• Translated by Alfred Birnbaum, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen and Jay Rubin.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: The Second Bakery Attack // On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning // Birthday Girl //
Samsa in Love // A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism
Killing Commendatore
2018
Library edition: October 2018, first UK edition, 1st printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-7873-0019-4
Hardcover, 681 pages
£20.00
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Short fiction chapbooks
First Person Singular
2020
Library edition: April 2021, 1st UK edition, 1st printing
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-7873-0260-0
Hardcover, 256 pages
£16.99
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: Cream // On a Stone Pillow // Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova // With the Beatles // Confessions of a
Shinagawa Monkey // Carnaval // First Person Singular
Essay: The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection
Birthday Girl
2019
< January 2019, first edition
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-7873-0125-2
Trade paperback, 48 pages
£1.99
Notes:
• Translated by Jay Rubin.
Novelist As a Vocation
2015
< November 2022, first UK edition
Harvill Secker
ISBN 978-1-911215-38-7
Hardcover, 208 pages
£18.99
Notes:
• Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Non-fiction
