Haruki Murakami, the Genius of the Eternal Candidate for the Nobel Prize of Literature

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Murakami is one of Japan’s highly regarded contemporary writers, whose best-sellers are translated into more than 40 idioms worldwide. For instance, in the first week of its release, his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage sold about a million copies in his home country. His writing can’t be assimilated to a specific…