Murakami is a writer who discovered Japan and its inhabitants for the whole world. His books are a window into the world of the Japanese. His first books were about life and feelings, but later, when he began to travel, when he saw his homeland from the outside, through the eyes of a foreigner, he wanted to write about his homeland, about life there, about people, culture, mentality.

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Draw
on the
carousel

In the collection of short stories, Murakami compares life to a carousel from which it is impossible to get off: we do not overtake anyone and no one overtakes us, but to us this rotation seems to be a furious draw with imaginary enemies.

The beginning of writing

The desire to write this novel arose in the writer during a baseball game, when he suddenly felt that he had to do it. Although Haruka did not have any writing experience before, because he believed that he was not endowed with writing talent. And in April 1974, he began writing the novel "Hear the Wind Sing".

After he moved to live in the West from Japan, I speak excellent English, and for the first time in the history of Japanese national literature, I began to see my Homeland through the eyes of a modern European. He says that after he left his country, he suddenly wanted to write about it, about its inhabitants, about the past and present of Japan.