By Haruki Murakami
Genre: Contemporary FictionSCORCHING
The Book Club Rating : 4 Stars
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author
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Curiosities and Imaginations:How often does a book draw you into its own realms of consciousness, transport you into its own magical universe of endless possibilities and absorb every moment of your waking life . “Wind Up Bird Chronicle’ arouses your curiosity no end .Well that’s rather an understatement. It draws your brains outside so that by the end you are left questioning your own world and the energies surrounding you.
Perhaps I don’t make much sense here, but on the first reading I came to know you cannot really make sense of anything which is open to endless interpretations . Metaphysical? Magical realism?Stream of consciousness? Let me not get to those banalities and tell you my own little interpretation of a work which I cannot even claim to understand in its entirety.
Poor little Mr wind up Bird aka Toru Okada the protagonist of the book is a peace loving husband who cooks pasta , does his wife’s laundry and pays the electricity bills.
Perhaps I don’t make much sense here, but on the first reading I came to know you cannot really make sense of anything which is open to endless interpretations . Metaphysical? Magical realism?Stream of consciousness? Let me not get to those banalities and tell you my own little interpretation of a work which I cannot even claim to understand in its entirety.
Poor little Mr wind up Bird aka Toru Okada the protagonist of the book is a peace loving husband who cooks pasta , does his wife’s laundry and pays the electricity bills.
Publisher: 1st Vintage International Ed edition (September 1, 1998)
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