Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love Hardcover – November 16, 2021 by Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

Description

Author: Murakami Haruki

Color: Multicolor

Package Dimensions: 0x171x567

Number Of Pages: 192

Release Date: 16-11-2021

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The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.

Considered “the world’s most popular cult novelist” (
The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.

In
Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts–including gems from the
Springsteen on Broadway show in NYC, to the Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story “Tony Takitani.” Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami’s multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.

Review

“Murakami’s charming, utterly self-effacing eccentricity—one of the hallmarks of his fiction—shines brightly here…” —Bill Ott,
Booklist
“Murakami’s many fans will eat up this charming ramble.” —
Publishers Weekly

About the Author

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2016.