Howard Phillips Lovecraft. George R. R. Martin. Diana Gabaldon. Anne Bishop. Haruki Murakami. Most authors don't write simultaneous futuristic thrillers and pastoral fantasies about people with slashed eyes. Most authors don't write about chains of events set off by a missing cat. Most authors don't write about 15 year-old Oedipuses.Most authors are not Haruki Murakami.Murakami's works include twelve novels, dozens of short stories, an autobiography, and a non-fiction book of essays and interviews exploring a terrorist attack on Tokyo's subways that occurred in 1995. He achieved literary super-stardom in Japan with the publication of Norwegian Wood, but opinion is very much divided among the Japanese literary community whether he is a genius or a purveyor of somewhat odd popular fiction.
His fans say, why not both? Amnesiac Lover: The narrator imagines that he and his dream girl are actually both examples of this in "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning". John Connolly: Bestselling Author. Jim Butcher. Jim Butcher. The Official Clive Barker Resource - Revelations. Clive Barker. Home. Neil Gaiman.