East Asian Literary Fiction

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

Murakami's journal of training for the New York City Marathon becomes a meditation on discipline, aging, and the writing life. Running and writing as parallel practices—both solitary, both requiring the same stubborn endurance. Reflective, precise, and unexpectedly moving.

More East Asian Literary Fiction

• Run, Melos! and Other Stories — Osamu Dazai
• The Ghost Bride — Yangsze Choo
• Molka — Monika Kim
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima
• 空の境界（上） — Kinoko Nasu
• Sweet Bean Paste — Durian Sukegawa
• Now You're One of Us — Asa Nonami
• Taiwan Travelogue — Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

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