Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Vintage Classics Japanese Series

by Haruki Murakami

No cover — Haruki Murakami: Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (2019, Penguin Random House)

624 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:: 978-1-78487-541-1

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(12 reviews)

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. ([source][1])

[1]: www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

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Chad Nelson reviewed The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Re-read after 20 years and it hits way differnt

5 stars

Weird and brilliant, the book constantly tempts you into decoding it’s meaning, and then immediately pulls the rug out from under your mind-feet.

I also felt like I needed a giant white board to track the seemingly endless inter-connections, parallels, and metaphors, but I’m not sure a large enough white board exists, and even if it did I’d probably just end up with a giant mess of ideas rendered less beautiful than the novel itself. All that said, his writing about female sexuality is weird and deeply uncomfortable.