v=1635821895","width":1200},{"alt":null,"id":23022330970202,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. Murakami's understated love letters to his tees also convey how we give life to our things and vice versa.

Many of his novels have themes and titles that invoke classical music, such as the three books making up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Thieving Magpie (after Rossini's opera), Bird as Prophet (after a piano piece by Robert Schumann usually known in English as The Prophet Bird), and The Bird-Catcher (a character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute). Introducing the UNIQLO UT PEACE FOR ALL project: an ongoing collection of T- shirts designed by world - renowned leaders in art, design, literature, science and sport. He says as much himself (“It isn’t like these are valuable T-shirts or anything, and I’m not claiming they have any particular artistic value”). Whats exciting is how we get to somehow go an adventure with him as well, a trip to his past and his experience as a lecturer, as an author and even as a normal human as well. He also muses about how whenever he isn’t sure of a word he googles it to discover there is always a band by that name.He if fond of hoarding vinyl records and along with his collection of books, we get to see a very intimate as well as a different side of Murakami through this book. I am not a Murakami fan; I've struggled multiple times with The Strange Library and have never gotten very far.

From why he always wore ties when living in Italy (“you would get these dirty looks if you weren’t”) to what makes a person stylish (“I think it’s great when somebody can make everyday clothes look comfortable”), it turns out Murakami has more to say about fashion than you might imagine. In the words of Murakami himself: “I doubt that this collection will be that useful to anyone, much less being of any help in solving any of the myriad problems we face at present.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. This one is a collector's item exclusively for the die-hard Murakami fan who wants to emulate and imitate his every move.