- Published: 10 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446499108
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Formats & editions
- Published: 10 October 2011
- ISBN: 9781446499108
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Daily Telegraph
Visionary...a bold and generous book
New York Times
Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty
Independent on Sunday
Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original
The Times
Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original
New York Times
Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work
Independent