by Haruki Murakami, Makoto Wada · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419729774
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«Retrats en jazz» is a book of portraits and essays by Haruki Murakami and Makoto Wada, published by Editorial Empúries in hardback (248 pages, in Catalan).
Haruki Murakami brings together fifty-five portraits of jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Ella Fitzgerald, with illustrations by Makoto Wada. Each text combines personal memories, anecdotes and comments on a historic record; together they form an affectionate and personal history of jazz.
Translated from Japanese into Catalan by Albert Nolla Cabellos. Part of the Empúries Narrativa collection.
For jazz and music enthusiasts, as well as for Murakami followers who want to discover this facet of his work.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
