- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9780099540953
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $14.99
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Vintage Classics Japanese Series















- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9780099540953
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 640
- RRP: $14.99
Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty
Independent on Sunday
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
Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Daily Telegraph
How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's 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