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The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.

Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a more intimate, and perhaps more unique, passion: his T-shirt-collecting habit.

In Murakami T, the famously reclusive novelist shows us his T-shirts - including gems found in bookshops, charity shops and record stores - from those featuring whisky, animals, cars and superheroes, to souvenirs of marathons and a Beach Boys concert in Honolulu, to the shirt that inspired the beloved short story 'Tony Takitani'. Accompanied by short, frank essays that have been translated into English for the first time, these photographs reveal much about Murakami's multifaceted and wonderfully eccentric persona.

© Haruki Murakami 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Fascinating...part ode, part exhibit that reads with restrained affection for his accidental accumulations....these tees excavate an intimate history. The choices we make about what we find and keep point to our interior worlds...Murakami's understated love letters to his tees also convey how we give life to our things and vice versa.
Atlantic
It's safe to say there is no one like Murakami
Literary Review
Murakami is one of the best writers around
Time Out, on Norwegian Wood
Everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility
Guardian, on Norwegian Wood
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original
The Times, on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Undeniably a somewhat eccentric book. But it's also a very likeable one... The overall effect is not unlike sharing a conversation with a genial bloke in a bar
Reader's Digest
One of the most influential novelists of his generation.
Observer
An incredibly readable and charming tour through Murakami's life through the T-shirts he has collected along the way... [the reader] feels a personal connection with him, as if we are reading his secret diary
Northern Echo
Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator Kotaro Watanabe
Duration 1 hours and 44 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529193336
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Antiques, vintage and collectables: clothing and accessories, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Individual artists, art monographs, Literary essays, Material culture, Memoirs
Availability AU, GB, IE

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