The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Murakami is that unusual creature, a metaphysical novelist with a warm, down-to-earth voice and a knack for creating credible characters and spinning a lively yarn.
Books The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Author
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Haruki Murakami
- Year
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage
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The well, of course, is a common literary image. It is a retreat into the self; it is also a retreat into the world of memory, of the past, and of death.
Laura Miller
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There’s the deadpan, surreal-verging-on-absurdist comic tone, a willingness to bend the edges of reality in stories set in an otherwise mundane setting, and the underlying melancholy observed in everyday middle-class rituals.
Our Thoughts
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is complex and ambitious. Murakami brings together disparate fragments to create a novel that feels almost whole, and benefits from not being so.
— Lily Power