The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Author: Haruki Murakami Fiction: 1368789 ISBN: 9780679775430 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 1998 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: First Vintage International Number of Pages: 607 Section: Fiction | Literary Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: "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 f