Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman. - New York Times Book Review <br><br> A delight . . . equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest. - USA Today<br> <br> A witty adventure . . . a piece of verbal anarchy . . . a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish. - San Francisco Chronicle<br> <br> Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four Raymonds-Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau. -Frederick Barthelme