Dreaming Murakami

When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing), a two-metre tall Frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, trying to get her help in its fight against a gigantic Worm that is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. When Mette read Murakami’s book more than twenty years ago, Haruki Murakami had yet to reach literary stardom. She had no idea how the Japanese author's imagined worlds would shape and transform her own.