by Haruki Murakami · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788490667071
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Tokio blues, Haruki Murakami's most successful work, is a moving story about youth, first loves, and the pain involved in the transition to adulthood. As he lands at a European airport, Toru Watanabe, a 37-year-old executive, listens to an old Beatles song that takes him back to his youth, to the turbulent Tokyo of the sixties. With a mixture of melancholy and unease, Toru then remembers the unstable and mysterious Naoko, the girlfriend of his best and only friend from adolescence, Kizuki. His suicide distanced Toru and Naoko for a year, until they met again and began an intimate relationship. However, the appearance of another woman in Toru's life leads him to experience the dazzle and disappointment where everything should make sense: sex, love and death. None of the characters seems capable of reaching the fragile balance between youthful hopes and the need to find a place in the world.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
