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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

ISBN: 9780099448792
Release Date: 22 Apr 1999
Average rating: (read by 254 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

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	Paisley
	Rated it 19 days ago

I could not wait for this book to end... This started off as a shot story and Murakami expanded on it but I think somebody should have advised him against it... It drags on without any reason in many parts... Length does not always equal brilliance...

	mentalsurge Full Review
	Rated it 7 months ago

Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicle is an excellent blending of the surreal Kafka-esque style that we are used to from Murakami's short stories, but with a raw gritty reality in relationships and feelings.

All the characters and their actions somehow...

	Crazifantazi
	Rated it 8 months ago

I love the way Murakami describes things but found this book too long and a bit too fantastical at times.

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