In one of his works Toru Watanabe is thrown back to the 1960s after hearing an orchestral cover of a titular Beatles tune.
He has translated many works of authors such as Raymond Carver, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote into his native language, and received the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006 for his Kafka on the (*) Shore, or Umibe no Kafka. In one of his works Toru Watanabe is thrown back to the 1960s after hearing an orchestral cover of a titular Beatles tune. FTP, identify this Japanese author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
He has translated many works of authors such as Raymond Carver, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote into his native language, and received the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006 for his Kafka on the (*) Shore, or Umibe no Kafka.
Haruki {Murakami}