"Dreamlike and compelling.... Murakami is a genius." –
Chicago Tribune "Mesmerizing.... Murakami's most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice." –
The Washington Post Book World "A significant advance in Murakami's art ... a bold and generous book." –
The New York Times Book Review "A stunning work of art ... that bears no comparisons." –
New York Observer "With
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars." –
Philadelphia Inquirer "Seductive.... A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange." –
San Francisco Chronicle "An epic ... as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi." –
New York Magazine "Mesmerizing, original ... fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding." –
Baltimore Sun "A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory.... Compelling [and] convincing." –
Los Angeles Times Book Review "Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's past ... brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular." –Pico Iyer,
Time