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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
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Description for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Paperback. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has been receiving. In this title, as the story unfolds, the suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer are truned inside out. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 458.
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099448792
SKU
V9780099448792
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99-99
About Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland ... Read more
Reviews for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journeys of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work
Independent
Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Daily Telegraph
Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk ... Read more
Independent
Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Daily Telegraph
Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk ... Read more