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Wind Up Bird Chronicle

By Haruki Murakami

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| Paperback | 9780099503965

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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 are tuContinue

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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking — until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he star ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

9 Reviews

6 people find this helpful

One of my favorites.

One of the five or ten best novels I've ever read. It's a dreamlike mystery wrapped in a philosophical novel, although that doesn't even begin to describe it.

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keithlaw said on Sep 12, 2006 | Add your feedback

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When I start reading a new Murakami book, I always have that moment of incredulity towards the characters - 'oh, they would never do / say / put up with that'.
But after a while, I remember why I love his writing - very precise, very imaginative; so much so, you are completely reeled in thinking t ... (continue)

When I start reading a new Murakami book, I always have that moment of incredulity towards the characters - 'oh, they would never do / say / put up with that'.
But after a while, I remember why I love his writing - very precise, very imaginative; so much so, you are completely reeled in thinking that of course, why *wouldn't* they do / say / put up with that?'
The beauty of this writing is it transports you to a new reality - this is kind of the point of a good book, no? :)

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goldtop said on Jan 22, 2011 | Add your feedback

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Rationally: too long, too weird, too meandering, lots of stuff I read before (spaghetti, jazz, cats, strange women), but hey, this is the longest Murakami there is and I enjoyed every page I finished and every page I still had coming.

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Sengaia said on Apr 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

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Confusing but brilliant

Loved being lost between different story lines. Enjoyed the rapid shift between the moods. I am going to find the rest of his works. He is a modern Bolkakov

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Wagih2000 said on May 3, 2011 | Add your feedback

The only book I have found to be worth re-reading.

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DFL said on Jan 30, 2010 | Add your feedback

Bedazzled

This book confirmed my conversion to Murakamism ;) I'd read Kafka on the Shore and been very impressed, then After Dark which... well, I may have to re-visit someday. Wind Up Bird Chronicle simply poured out good writing, moving gracefully between several plot lines before tying them all up mostly s ... (continue)

This book confirmed my conversion to Murakamism ;) I'd read Kafka on the Shore and been very impressed, then After Dark which... well, I may have to re-visit someday. Wind Up Bird Chronicle simply poured out good writing, moving gracefully between several plot lines before tying them all up mostly satisfactorily, at the conclusion. I think this is probably his pinnacle, but I might be wrong:)

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mrpeterryan said on Jan 10, 2010 | Add your feedback