The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Vintage books) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle "Magnificent. . . .(Murakami) has taken a pre-millennial swing for the fences a la David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo" ("Newsweek"). "A surreal, sprawling drama . . . that marks . . . Murakami's most ambitious work to date".--"Publishers Weekly".
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 01 May 1999
- Format: Paperback 607 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780679775430 ISBN 10: 0679775439
- Sales rank: 15,249
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Full description for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. All of Murakami's storytelling genius -- combining elements of detective fiction, deadpan humor, and metaphysical truth, and swiftly transforming commonplace realism into surreal revelation -- is on full, seamless display. And in turning his literary imagination loose on a broad social and political canvas, he bares nothing less than the soul of a country steeped in the violence of the 20th century.
