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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Limited Centenary edition

Haruki Murakami

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Published by Harvill Secker, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Hardback

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EAN: 9781846553875
Published: 6 May 2010

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Synopsis

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.

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What the critics say

Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journeys 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

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

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. He has received many honours, including the Franz Kafka Prize.

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