The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami

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Japanese

Vintage
01 April 2003

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami's most celebrated and influential masterpiece
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Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.

His wife is growing more distant every day.

Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.

As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

'Visionary...a bold and generous book' New York Times

'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' Independent on Sunday

'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph

'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The Times

By: Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 452g
ISBN: 9780099448792
ISBN 10: 0099448793
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 April 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. The most recent of his many honours is the Franz Kafka Prize.

Reviews for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down Daily Telegraph Visionary...a bold and generous book New York Times Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty Independent on Sunday Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original The Times Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original New York Times