Murakami T, Haruki Murakami
Murakami T, Haruki Murakami
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Murakami T
The T-Shirts I Love

Author: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

Narrator: Kotaro Watanabe

Unabridged: 1 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that 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 from the Springsteen on Broadway show in NYC, to the 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.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book

About The Author

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award in 2016.


Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on August 19, 2024

My favorite part about this book is simply that it exists and it is objectively kind of funny that someone was like “hey, what if we just put out a $25 book of Murakami talking about t-shirts?” The funniest part is myself and other people were like “hell yea, I will read that,” and I realize all the......more

Goodreads review by persephone ☾ on February 28, 2022

is it weird that this is the first book i've read from Murakami ? yes, very. i know.......more

Goodreads review by Sam on December 06, 2021

Haruki Murakami wrote a series of short essays about his t-shirt collection for the Japanese men’s fashion magazine, Popeye, over the course of a year and a half and these are all collected here in Blatant Stocking Stuffer For The Murakami Fan In Your Family Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love. The t-sh......more

Goodreads review by Avani ✨ on December 04, 2021

Murakami T : The T-shirts I Love is a book which if you're a Haruki Murakami fan like me should have on their shelves. It's a very small book of around 100 pages or so, of some of the most interesting t-shirts which murakami himself have hoarded. He if fond of hoarding vinyl records and along with hi......more

Goodreads review by L.S. on June 18, 2024

I began by pretending this was a short novel about a t-shirt and vinyl-record-obsessed old guy, who happened to also be an obscenely successful novelist and it worked for the most part in the sense that I enjoyed reading these table scraps of autobiographical reminiscences from the most influential......more


Quotes

"Mr. Murakami takes readers through a sartorial journey, sharing memories and musings through the lens of the clothes he has accumulated over the years."--Anna P. Kambhampaty, The New York Times

"Murakami T: The T-shirts I Love, is part ode, part exhibit that reads with restrained affection for his accidental accumulations...The diaristic entries have the simplicity of a show-and-tell, with Murakami’s spare prose offering a material history of his closet...Haruki Murakami’s understated love letters to his T-shirts convey how we give life to our things and vice versa."--Charlene K. Lau, The Atlantic

"This lively peek into his collection provides some surprising insights into the humble, real Murakami...A playful, witty, nostalgic journey with an acclaimed novelist." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Murakami's charming, utterly self-effacing eccentricity—one of the hallmarks of his fiction—shines brightly here..." —Bill Ott, Booklist

"Murakami’s many fans will eat up this charming ramble." —Publishers Weekly