The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
Jay Rubin (translator), Haruki Murakami (author)- 10+ in stock
'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' - Independent on Sunday
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been 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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099448792
Number of pages: 624
Weight: 450 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down' - The Daily Telegraph
'Visionary...a bold and generous book' - The New York Times
'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' - Independent on Sunday
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“The Wind-up Bird Chronicle”
This book is great. It has many twists that continue though out the story. keeping the reader compeled to carry on reading.
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