Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words is a non-fiction book by Jay Rubin, published by Harvill Press in 2002.
Steffen Hantke of Sogang University described it as an "attempt to provide its readers with everything but the kitchen sink.
"[2] Hantke described the book at the time as "the most comprehensive single work of scholarship on" Murakami.
[4] Ann Sherif of Oberlin College wrote that Rubin was "frank" in his appraisals of Murakami's literature.
[2] Brian Keeley of the Far Eastern Economic Review stated that the details present in the biographical information were "some significant, too many trivial".