Haruki Murakami
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| Title | : | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3) |
| Author | : | Haruki Murakami |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 607 pages |
| Published | : | 1997 by Knopf (first published April 12th 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary |
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Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.Define Books Toward The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3)
| Original Title: | ねじまき鳥クロニクル [Nejimakidori kuronikuru] |
| ISBN: | 0965341984 (ISBN13: 9780965341981) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3 |
| Characters: | Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, Malta Kano, May Kasahara, Creta Kano, Tokutaro Mamiya, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka, Boris Gromov, Ushikawa |
| Setting: | Tokyo(Japan) |
| Literary Awards: | Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (1999), Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞 for Fiction (1995), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (1999) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 203483 Users | 13244 ReviewsPiece Based On Books The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3)
If I were to use only one word to describe this book, I would type the word 'brilliant' a million times with each letter in CAPITALS and fill up the entire word length of this particular space. In all its sensitivity, emotional depth and keen understanding of the complications of the human mind The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is a stellar work of literature and a tour de force. I cannot go ahead and say it is Murakami's magnum opus (it is not his longest novel), since I haven't finished with all hisSo before long, you find yourself 340 pages into this book, and you have no idea what's happening.. Rather, you understand all you have read to this point, but still can't determine the direction Murakami is taking you in. Still, the book is compelling. You can't seem to put it down. Meanwhile it begins to invade your dreams.. in much the same manner that Toru's (the main character) dreams are invaded. You start having dreams about strange women and empty wells. So cracking into "Book Three",
I had been wondering where my cat was when the phone rang. It was a woman offering to have no strings sex with me. I made some non-committal remarks to her and put the receiver down. I hate those cold callers. I had nothing to do that day, or any other day, so I walked down the back alley and fell into a desultory conversation with a random 16 year old girl who had a wooden leg and a parrot on her shoulder. She suggested I help her make some easy money by counting bald people. That sounded about
Im a big fan of Haruki Murakami. When you pick up one of his novels, youre never completely sure where youll end up. This is definitely true of the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle! It starts as sort of a detective story in which Toru Okada searches for his wifes missing cat in their Tokyo suburb. After that, its really difficult to say what the book is about. Did the search for the cat trigger all the craziness that swirls around Toru or had everything already been set in motion? And if Torus descent
If youre a 30-ish married man in Japan with a dead end job as a law clerk, with hindsight, it was probably not a good idea to have your wife agree with you that you need to take a year off to find yourself. During this year off your cat may disappear and you may start hanging out with a neighborhood high school girl who suns herself in a tiny bikini. Then your wife may ask you to have lunch with the weird psychic sisters to try to find the cat. And a strange package may arrive from an old man
I had been wondering where my cat was when the phone rang. It was a woman offering to have no strings sex with me. I made some non-committal remarks to her and put the receiver down. I hate those cold callers. I had nothing to do that day, or any other day, so I walked down the back alley and fell into a desultory conversation with a random 16 year old girl who had a wooden leg and a parrot on her shoulder. She suggested I help her make some easy money by counting bald people. That sounded about
I adore this book and wish I could carry my enthusiasm for it to Murakami's other works. But in contrast to Wind-Up Bird Chroncle, those I've read disappoint. (Kafka On the Shore devolved into some wretchedly bad writing after the first half. Or was it wretchedly bad translation? I wish I knew.) Anyway, I have read Wind-Up Bird twice and will read it again. My favorite part is the sequence set during World War II near the Khalkha River in Outer Mongolia. This is Lieutenant Mamiya's tale of a
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