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Key Features

• The first insight into the life of this bestselling author
• Murakami is an international phenomenon: beloved in his native Japan, he is a bestseller the world over - his books are published in 45 territories, in 42 languages
• Murakami's entire backlist will be rejacketed in a new iconic, witty and collectable series style to coincide with the publication of 1Q84 in Vintage

About the Book: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The first, fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing,Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed asolo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of suchraces, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his lifeand on his writing.

Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, thisrevealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 NewYork City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaiengardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to theCharles River in Boston.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this isa must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as wellas for the exploding population of athletes who find similarsatisfaction in distance running.

About the Author: Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives nearTokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories andnon-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up BirdChronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk AboutWhen I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into morethan forty languages, and the most recent of his many internationalhonours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients includeJ.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.

Reviews

'Hugely enjoyable ... You don't have to have run a marathon tobe captivated' - Sunday Telegraph

'Comical, charming and philosophical ... an excellent memoir' - GQ

'Murakami manages to set a course that takes in views of allliterature, sport and the uphill journey of ageing, all with amodest fluency that covers the ground without raising a sweat' - Independent

'There can never have been a book quite like this memoir ofrunning and writing, taken together, before. In its self-containedway, it's nothing less than an inspiration' - Evening Standard