And the success of these quasi-surrealist works has, over the past few decades, heightened Western appetites for a magical-realist strain of Japanese fiction-fiction that, despite certain strange or uncanny elements, is approachably Western in sensibility, featuring coherent themes, logical narratives, and direct dialogue.
More than a million copies of Norwegian Wood (1989) and the tome-like 1Q84 (2011) have been sold in the United States to date. Of his 14 novels published in English, most, if not all, have become bestsellers, their familiar covers on prominent display in bookstores nationwide. THE MOST famous Japanese writer for readers in the West is, without a doubt, Haruki Murakami.
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