Some writers hate e-books, but not novelist Ryu Murakami, who has embraced the technology with the same enthusiasm he has for all tech developments. NHK's news focus program, 'A to Z' (NHK-G, Tues ...

Almost Transparent Blue, by Ryu Murakami Translated by Nancy Andrew. Kodansha International, Fiction. ... Almost 40 years on, the book is as powerful today as it was when published.

Book review: From the Fatherland, With Love, By Ryu Murakami, trans. Ralph McCarthy, Charles de Wolf and Ginny Tapley Takemori. A resonant and timely 'procedural thriller' on a fictional invasion ...

Ryu Murakami in the Tokyo hotel where he works four days a week: ... a plastic mineral water bottle, piles of books. Murakami greets me in English, though the interview takes place in Japanese.

Ryu Murakami has been publishing novels since the Seventies, but it is only recently that his version of the familiar postmodern cocktail – sex, blood and the media (shaken violently) – has ...

Reading between the lines of From the Fatherland, With Love, it appears there's a lot in Japanese society that Ryu Murakami is not particularly enamoured with. Sure, the baddies get their ...

Ryu Murakami was born in Nagasaki in 1952. Author of several novels, as well as a screenwriter and film director, he is famous in Japan, where his first book, "Almost Transparent Blue," won the ...

The opening chapters of Ryu Murakami’s novel are wry, with a premise suggesting the sort of Hollywood film Tom Hanks or Meg Ryan might be right for. Aoyama, a successful documentary producer ...