Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

The book includes Kato Norihiro’s final work on Murakami; Kato is often called Japan’s ‘last public intellectual’, and his chapter here is one of his few works ever translated into English

The book includes discussions by Murakami translators, Jay Rubin and Ted Goossen, as well as his English editor, Elmer Luke, shedding light not only on Murakami’s work as literature but also as a product of cross-cultural communication

The book includes an interview with Murakami Haruki himself by Rebecca Suter

The book includes contributions by some of the most prominent Murakami scholars including Matthew Strecher