5 Authors To Read If You Love Haruki Murakami

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Do you love reading Haruki Murakami? Here are five other authors that you must read.

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Franz Kafka

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Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is perhaps the first-ever foray into magical realism. To get an insight into where Murakami gets his surreal style, this needs to be read.

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Milan Kundera

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Full of paradoxes and wisdom, there is an earnestness and honesty to Kundera's narration which is quite akin to Murakami’s.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Marquez's works entwine love, loss, and magic - much like Murakami.

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Salman Rushdie

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He challenges the status quo and the laws of reality. Unlike Murakami, his style of writing is not at all simple and will not be everyone’s cup of tea.

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Elizabeth Kostova

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Elizabeth Kostova blends fact and fantasy with expertise and deals with obscure signs and hidden texts.

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