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Article: HANDS OF FATE; Japanese pop icon Haruki Murakami evokes vast changes in his homeland with two novels on thwarted love and a brilliant non-fiction account of a cult's deadly 1995 terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 20, 2001
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Byline: Eric Hanson; Staff Writer
`I'm 51, but sometimes I feel I'm just a boy, a little lost," the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami told the Associated Press last year. Murakami's career - 20 years, three continents, eight books translated into English - reflects that disorientation. Twice he has left Japan - a period that he calls "a self-imposed exile" - only to be drawn home again. But unlike most of his contemporaries, he has cultivated a sizable audience beyond his giant readership there.
In the United States, two books have just been published: the novel "Sputnik Sweetheart" and "Underground," an account of the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo ...
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