: Ancient Japan. The imperial son, enjoying the luxury and admiration of the world, does not tire of embarking on new love adventures. The novel covers a time period of several decades. The protagonist is the brilliant Genji, one of the imperial sons, has all sorts of advantages, rare ...

Novella about Seijuro from Himeji In a large noisy harbor on the sea, where rich overseas vessels always stand on the pier, there lived among the winemakers a man named Izumi Seijuro, a cheerful and prosperous handsome man who had embarked on a journey of love joy from his youngest nails. City fashionistas overpowered him with their ...

On February 28, 1936, on the third day after the military coup arranged by a group of young nationalist-minded officers who were dissatisfied with a too liberal government, Guards Lieutenant Shinji Takeeyama, unable to come to terms with the emperor’s order,condemned the uninvited intercessors and gave ...

Sages in ancient times said that beauty is a sword that cuts life. The flowers of the heart showered, and by the evening only dry branches remain. It is foolish to die an early death in the abyss of love, but, truly, such madmen will never translate! Once two young men argued by the river about what they are more ...

: An aristocratic family that is losing its former influence is trying to find meaning in life and cope with its difficulties. 1 Post-war time. The narration is conducted in the first person - the main character of the story of 29-year-old Kazuko. Kazuko and his mother have breakfast with soup. Daughter celebrates innate aristocracy ...

This book is noticeable about everything that passed before my eyes and worried my heart, I wrote in the silence and solitude of my house ... In spring - the dawn. All the whiter edges of the mountains, now they are slightly lit up with light.Purple clouds touched by thin ribbons creep across the sky. In summer, night. No words, she is beautiful in ...

This work does not have common characters with the previous books of Murakami, although they have similar images and plots. At the beginning of the Chronicle, the protagonist leaves the law firm, where he was an “errand boy”. He lives on some kind of savings, money left by his parents and what he earns ...

Once in August, a person goes on a three-day vacation to replenish his collection of insects with rare species found in the sand. He takes the train to station S, transfers to the bus and, getting off at the final stop, goes on foot. He passes the village and goes on a sandy road ...

: The young man tells about his inner struggle between spiritual love for a beautiful girl and hidden homosexual inclinations, about the desire to recover from “abnormality” and loneliness. As an epigraph, a quote about beauty from F. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” is used. Chapter one ...

: The heroes of the novel move from 1984 to 1Q84. Trying to find a way out of the new reality, where they were not of their own free will, they finally find true values ​​and find their true "I". Book I. April — June Aomame, a 29-year-old young woman with a stern, expressionless face, gets stuck in traffic ...

: The main character is looking for a friend in whom the spirit of the Sheep has instilled himself, who wants to create the Empire of Absolute Anarchy with his help. To save the world, the hero’s friend commits suicide, hoping that the Sheep will also die. Parts 1-2 First-person narration. The hero finds out about the death of a long-time girlfriend with whom he had a relationship ...

The researcher, the head of the laboratory at the Institute of High Molecular Chemistry, during the experiment burned his face with liquid oxygen, which made his whole face scarred. The wounds do not heal in any way, and he always walks with a bandaged face. He speculates that the absence of facial skin, which ...

One morning, Buddha wandered alone along the shore of a paradise pond. He stopped in thought and suddenly saw everything that was happening at the bottom of the Lotus Pond, which reached the very depths of the underworld. Down there, a great many sinners crowded. Buddha's gaze fell on one of them. His name was Candata, and ...

Once in the evening, a servant fired by the owner waited for the rain under the gates of Rashomon. Sitting on the top rung, he kept touching the boil, which popped up on his right cheek. Although the gates stood on the main street, there was no one besides this servant, only a cricket sat on a round pillar....

The lady who served at the court of his lordship, Horikawa, tells the story of the writing of the screens of “Flour of Hell”. His lordship was a powerful and generous ruler, so all the inhabitants of the capital revered him as a living Buddha. There were even rumors that, when once the bulls harnessed to his lordship’s chariot, ...

“This was at a time when people considered frivolity for virtue, and life was not yet overshadowed, as in our days, by severe adversities. It was an age of idleness ... ”People went to great lengths for the sake of beauty, not stopping to cover their bodies with tattoos.Among the lovers of such jewelry were not only ...

The action takes place in the thirties and ends in the spring of 1941. The sisters of Makioka belong to an old family. Once their surname was known to all residents of Osaka, but in the twenties the financial situation of Makioka-father shook, and the family gradually became impoverished. Makiok had no sons, therefore ...

Whom Mozuya, known by the name of Syunkin, was born in Osaka in the family of a pharmacist in 1828.She was the most beautiful and most gifted of all the children of a pharmacist, and besides, she had an even, cheerful disposition. But at the age of eight, the girl suffered misfortune: she was blinded. From that time on, she quit dancing and dedicated ...

The narrator is a cat, just a cat that has no name. He does not know who his parents are, he only remembers how a kitten climbed into the kitchen of a house in search of food and the owner took pity and sheltered him. It was Kusyami - a school teacher. Since then, the kitten has grown and turned into a big fluffy cat. He is fighting ...

: An information coding specialist is able to be in several consciousnesses, which has become a threat to his real existence: the real world can disappear for him forever. The novel is an alternation of two storylines through a chapter: “Wonderland without brakes” and “End of the World”. During ...