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ISBN-10: 0679775439
ISBN-13: 9780679775430
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/01/1998
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.25" W, 1.30" H

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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Overview

“The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man’s search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. All of Murakami’s storytelling genius — combining elements of detective fiction, deadpan humor, and metaphysical truth, and swiftly transforming commonplace realism into surreal revelation — is on full, seamless display. And in turning his literary imagination loose on a broad social and political canvas, he bares nothing less than the soul of a country steeped in the violence of the 20th century.

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Reviews
"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

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679775439
ISBN-13: 9780679775430
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 09/01/1998
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.25" W, 1.30" H
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