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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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, "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, "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 "WithThe 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 suffusesThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicleand 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, "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
Synopsis
A "dreamlike and compelling" tour de force ( Chicago Tribune )--an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Now with a new introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat--and then for his wife as well--in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels., The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force--and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat--and then for his wife as well--in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.
