The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started 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.

Haruki Murakami

Reviews

“ 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

Paperback

9780099540953

December 1, 2010

Vintage Classics

640 pages

RRP $14.99
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Paperback

9780099448792

April 1, 2003

Vintage

624 pages

RRP $19.99
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EBook

9781446499108

October 10, 2011

Vintage Digital

624 pages
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