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The Seventh Man

Haruki Murakami

Translated by Jay Rubin

‘I looked up at the sky. A few grey cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless.’

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and he has been the recipient of a host of international awards and honours including the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Liège and Princeton University.

Photograph © Elena Seibert

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Translated by Jay Rubin

Jay Rubin has a PhD in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago. His translations include the story collection Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,  The Miner, by Sōseki Natsume and Haruki Murakami’s novels The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleNorwegian Wood, After Dark and books one and two of 1Q84.

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