The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Zusatztext “Dreamlike and compelling. . . . Murakami is a genius.” — Chicago Tribune “Mesmerizing. . . . Murakami’s most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice.” — The Washington Post Book World “A significant advance in Murakami’s art . . . a bold and generous book.” — The New York Times Book Review “A stunning work of art . . . that bears no comparisons.” — New York Observer “With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ! Murakami spreads his brilliant! fantastical wings and soars.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “Seductive. . . . A labyrinth designed by a master! at once familiar and irresistibly strange.” — San Francisco Chronicle “An epic . . . as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi.” — New York Magazine “Mesmerizing! original . . . fascinating! daring! mysterious and profoundly rewarding.” — Baltimore Sun “A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review “Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan’s past . . . brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular.” —Pico Iyer! Time Informationen zum Autor Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.  The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.  He is the author of the novels Dance, Dance, Dance , Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , and A Wild Sheep Chase , and of The Elephant Vanishes , a collection of stories.  His latest novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun , will be published by Knopf in 1999.  His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Klappentext The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the city's placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Book One: The Thieving Magpie June and July 1984 1 Tuesday's Wind-Up Bird • Six Fingers and Four Breasts When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie , which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. I wanted to ignore the phone, not only because the spaghetti was nearly done, but because Claudio Abbado was bringing the London Symphony to its musical climax. Finally, though, I had to give in. It could have been somebody with news of a job opening. I lowered the flame, went to the living room, and picked up the receiver. "Ten minutes, please," said a woman on the other end. I'm good at recognizing people's voices, but this was not one I knew. "Excuse me? To whom did you wish to speak?" "To you , of course. Ten minutes, please. That's all we need to understand each other." Her voice was low and soft but otherwise nondescript. "Understand each other?" "Each other's feelings." I leaned over and peeked through the kitchen door. The spaghetti pot was steaming nicely, and Claudio Abbado was still conducting The Thieving Magpie . "Sorry, but you cau...

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Dreamlike and compelling.... Murakami is a genius. Chicago Tribune

Mesmerizing.... Murakami s most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice. The Washington Post Book World

A significant advance in Murakami s art ... a bold and generous book. The New York Times Book Review

A stunning work of art ... that bears no comparisons. New York Observer

With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars. Philadelphia Inquirer

Seductive.... A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange. San Francisco Chronicle

An epic ... as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi. New York Magazine

Mesmerizing, original ... fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding. Baltimore Sun

A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory.... Compelling [and] convincing. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan s past ... brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular. Pico Iyer, Time

Product details

• Authors: Haruk Murakami, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
• Assisted by: Jay Rubin (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage, New York
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780679775430
• ISBN: 978-0-679-77543-0
• No. of pages: 624
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature