The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

640 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2010 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-954095-3
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" (English), are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe.

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Murakamin kirjat ovat luotettavia lukukokemuksia: tarina on aina käytännössä sama ja tunnelma aina mukavasti nyrjähtänyt. Tällä kertaa salariman-elämää vieroksuvan kolmikymppisen miehen vaimo katoaa yhtäkkiä, ja katoamisen selvittäminen ei tietenkään ole mitenkään suoraviivainen tai looginen prosessi. Tapaus tuntuu myös jollain tavalla kietoutuvan Japanin sotaoperaatioihin Kiinan mantereella, ja sitä kautta teos laajeneekin japanilaisen machokulttuurin kommentaariksi.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, psychological
  • Japan, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Fiction, political
  • Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)