Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami spoke recently with Kyodo News about his latest novel "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" and his pursuit of expressing to his satisfaction motifs of the self, shadows and walls prevalent in his works.
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win. Murakami said at Thursday's reading that he enjoys scary stories and wanted to write more of them. The event featured one from the 18-century collection “Tales of Moonlight and Rain,” which intrigued Murakami since his childhood and is known to have inspired his work.
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