My profession is storytelling

Author: Haruki Murakami

“One April afternoon in 1978, Haruki Murakami was sitting in the stands of Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium, watching a baseball game, when he had an epiphany that would change his life completely. It happened when a player on his local team hit a home run to left field, and the crowd cheered. Murakami says, “At that moment, without any preamble of any kind, this thought suddenly occurred to me: I think I can write a novel!”... This book is a guide to writing fiction from a very personal perspective, spiced with some opinion and autobiography, and contains a number of strange and revealing scenes, where the experiences he went through seem closer to passages from his novels than to reality. Moreover, he narrates them as if they came from nature, which reminds us of his seemingly simple and commonplace style, often shifting between the simple everyday matter and the mysterious world, without a noticeable change in His tone.