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n 1978, Haruki Murakami Was Twenty-Nine And Running A Jazz Bar In Downtown Tokyo. One April Day, The Impulse To Write A Novel Came To Him Suddenly While Watching A Baseball Game. That First Novel, Hear The Wind Sing, Won A New Writers' Award And Was Published The Following Year. More Followed, Including A Wild Sheep Chase And Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, But It Was Norwegian Wood, Published In 1987, That Turned Murakami From A Writer Into A Phenomenon. His Books Became Bestsellers, Were Translated Into Many Languages, Including English, And The Door Was Thrown Wide Open To Murakami's Unique And Addictive Fictional Universe.