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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami











What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

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.Įqual 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. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.













What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami