READER’S DIGEST RECOMMENDED READ: Shirting The Issues
got some serious status as a writer when you can publish a lavishly illustrated book about your own T-shirts. Haruki Murakami began producing fiction in the late 1970s, but it was only with the 1987 book that he really hit the big time. A nostalgic tale of young love, it became a global bestseller and led to a level of adulation that few authors have ever had. In his native Japan, he was mobbed at airports. In America, his-style midnight launches in crowded bookstores. And with the appearance of in the mid-Nineties, his star rose, if anything, even higher.
