The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Product Description

The saga of a mysteriously disintegrating marriage, suppressed memories of the tragedies of war, and a young man's search for his personal and national identity is set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Japan. 

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.

Review

"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)

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st edition (22 April 1999)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099448793

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099448792

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.71 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 7,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

28 in Satires

86 in Cat, Dog & Animal Humour

91 in Poetry & Drama Criticism

Customer reviews: 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars    10,232 ratings