Philip Gabriel Ordine dei libri

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.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama). 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 lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

Aomame e Tengo sono da mesi persi sotto un cielo ostile in cui brillano due lune, separati eppure uniti da qualcosa di invisibile, come solo il destino può essere. Minacciati dalla setta Sakigake e da forze ancora piú sinistre, braccati dall'investigatore Ushikawa, tanto geniale quanto pericoloso, sono ormai alla fine del viaggio. La storia di un amore che deve superare ostacoli, risolvere enigmi, attraversare universi, per dare un senso alla realtà.

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...

Tokyo, 1984. Aomame è un killer in minigonna e tacchi a spillo che vendica le donne che subiscono violenza. Tengo è un ghost writer alle prese con un libro inquietante come una profezia. Entrambi si giocano la vita in una storia che sembra destinata a farli incontrare. Ma quando Aomame, sollevando gli occhi al cielo, vede sorgere una seconda luna, capisce che non potranno condividere neppure la stessa realtà Mai come in 1Q84 Murakami ha esplorato le nostre ossessioni per dare vita a un mondo così personale, onirico e malinconico.

Una riflessione sul talento, sulla creatività e più in generale sulla condizione umana; l'autoritratto di uno scrittore-maratoneta, di un uomo di straordinaria determinazione, di profonda consapevolezza - dei propri limiti come delle proprie capacità -, di maniacale disciplina nel sottoporre il proprio fisico al duro esercizio della corsa; e non da ultimo la sorpresa di scoprire che un autore celebrato per la potenza della sua fantasia sia in realtà una natura estremamente metodica, ordinata, agli antipodi dello stereotipo dell'artista tutto «genio e sregolatezza».