Book review: Haruki Murakami’s book on writing evokes sense of deja vu

Haruki Murakami's Novelist As A Vocation, a book of 11 essays about the author's thoughts on writing and his life as a novelist. PHOTOS: AFP, HARVILL SECKER
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Novelist As A Vocation
By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
Non-fiction/Harvill Secker/Hardcover/210 pages/$37.45/Books Kinokuniya

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