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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Novelist · born 1949
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novelist whose surreal, melancholic books — Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84 among them — have been translated into more than fifty languages. He is also a devoted marathon runner.
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