Dances with Sheep The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki

"As a spokesman for disaffected youth of the post-1960s, Murakami Haruki has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Japanese literature, and he has gained a following in the United States through translations of his works. In Dances with Sheep, Matthew Strecher examines Murakam...

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मुख्य लेखक: Strecher, Matthew (auth)
स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: University of Michigan Press 2020
श्रृंखला:Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 37
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