The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A Novel
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4.5 • 49 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In the blink of an eye, Toru Okada's ordinary domestic world is upended. Much of the thrill of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle lies in how mild-mannered Okada reacts to the avalanche of mystical weirdness he shakes loose when he sets out in search of his cat and wife. But author Haruki Murakami also colors his hero's suburban Tokyo surroundings with such rich detail that it blurs the line between reality and bizarro fantasy. Add to this a blithe, sinister antagonist, and Chronicle is an epic feast for the imagination.
Customer Reviews
Difficult to put down
Each chapter of this book serves as a beautiful vignette. The dream sequences alone could have held my attention, let alone the gruesome tales of the war and the search for lost love and kitties. Such a great book.
Magical Murakami
I could not put it down, and wished the narrative would have gone on forever...
I repeatedly listened to P. Glass' Symphony #8 performed by Bruckner Orchester Linz and Dennis Russel Davies while reading this, I just couldn't stop, it was perfect.