01998nam a22002297a 4500 20260627012453.0 260627b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780099526155 eng Murakami, HarukiUK : 26328 What I talk about when I talk about running / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel UK : Penguin Random House, 2008. viii, 180p. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running. Japanese Literature 26114 Nonfiction 22893 Memoir 26329 Biography 22891 Haruki Murakami Autobiography 26330 Gabriel, Philip 26331 BK 33466 33466 0 0 0 0 CLIB CLIB FIC 2026-06-27 Technical Bureau India PVT. LTD. 699.00 0 895.635 T19 MUR 22927 2026-06-27 01:26:17 2026-06-27 BK