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Author: Haruki Murakami

Ultimately, is it possible for one person to completely understand another? We may invest endless time and energy in the persistent effort to learn about another person, but in the end, how close can...

Ultimately, is it possible for one person to completely understand another? We may invest endless time and energy in the persistent effort to learn about another person, but in the end, how close can we get to the essence of that person? We convince ourselves that we know this other individual well, but do we ever truly learn something significant about...

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  • Release 10/2022
  • Pages Pages 832
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Translation Translation Argyro Mantoglou
  • Publisher Publisher PSychogios
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  • Haruki Murakami at his best!!!

    It is my favorite Murakami novel, of all I have read so far at least.

    It is a wonderful story that weaves in elements from historical events of the Japanese war (stories from the '30s - '45) with settings in Manchuria, even Siberia, as well as the neighborhoods of Tokyo. Shockingly realistic images, with action, with a psycho-emotional descent into the subconscious, with suspense, with love and an intense need for communication and union with what each person is born to unite with.

    And all this having as a counterpoint a masterfully designed world of dreams and symbolism. With disappearances, searches, with a clear psychological profile of each character individually through amazing details.

    A book that could easily be a story taken from the universe of David Lynch.

    This characteristic trait of Murakami, who weaves stories within the main story and all together compose a mosaic of eternal union even if at first glance they seem to have nothing to do with each other... is masterful.

    It's amazing how he manages to connect even the smallest details that you probably might have overlooked.

    An amazing writer. Incredible pen!!! I declare myself a great admirer of his genius imagination, his immense talent, and especially here in THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE he draws you into its pages from the first lines and takes you on a journey until the very last goodbye of the finale.

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  • Haruki Murakami at his best!!!

    It is my favorite Murakami novel, of all I have read so far at least.

    It is a wonderful story that weaves in elements from historical events of the Japanese war (stories from the '30s - '45) with settings in Manchuria, even Siberia, as well as the neighborhoods of Tokyo. Shockingly realistic images, with action, with a psycho-emotional descent into the subconscious, with suspense, with love and an intense need for communication and union with what each person is born to unite with.

    And all this having as a counterpoint a masterfully designed world of dreams and symbolism. With disappearances, searches, with a clear psychological profile of each character individually through amazing details.

    A book that could easily be a story taken from the universe of David Lynch.

    This characteristic trait of Murakami, who weaves stories within the main story and all together compose a mosaic of eternal union even if at first glance they seem to have nothing to do with each other... is masterful.

    It's amazing how he manages to connect even the smallest details that you probably might have overlooked.

    An amazing writer. Incredible pen!!! I declare myself a great admirer of his genius imagination, his immense talent, and especially here in THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE he draws you into its pages from the first lines and takes you on a journey until the very last goodbye of the finale.

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Ultimately, is it possible for one person to completely understand another? We may invest endless time and energy in the persistent effort to learn about another person, but in the end, how close can we get to the essence of that person? We convince ourselves that we know this other individual well, but do we ever truly learn something significant about anyone?

Thirty-year-old Toru Okada loses his job, his cat, and soon after, his wife, and he embarks on a quest to find them. The calm routine of his life is overturned, and he begins a strange journey guided (albeit vaguely) by various characters, each of whom has their own story to tell him.

A police mystery, the chronicle of a marriage in disarray, an excavation of buried secrets from World War II: this masterful novel is all of these together, but mainly a testament to Murakami's unclassifiable literary brilliance.

Author Biography

HARUKI MURAKAMI is considered one of the world's leading contemporary writers. He was born in Kyoto in 1949 and got married very early, shortly after turning twenty. Together with his wife, they opened a jazz club in Tokyo named Peter Cat. Murakami attributes his decision to write to a paradoxical moment of sudden inspiration during a baseball game. Alongside his night job, he continued to write and translate major American authors, but turned exclusively to writing only after the enormous success of the novel NORWEGIAN WOOD, which has sold more than 10,000,000 copies worldwide and was made into a film. Since then, Murakami has divided his time between Japan and Hawaii, working on his novels with unprecedented consistency. He particularly loves and once completed, on his own, the route of the classic Athens marathon. He has been honored with the Franz Kafka, Jerusalem, and Hans Christian Andersen awards, as well as Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Yomiuri Prize, and is consistently among the candidates for the Nobel Prize.

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When the phone rang, I was in the kitchen boiling some pasta, whistling the overture from Rossini's The Thieving Magpie that was playing on the FM radio and is probably the most suitable soundtrack for preparing a pasta dish. I wanted to ignore the phone, not only because the spaghetti was almost ready, but also because Claudio Abbado was bringing the London Symphony Orchestra to its musical peak. Eventually, I had to give in. Maybe someone was calling about a new job opening. I turned down the heat, went to the living room, and picked up the receiver. "Ten minutes, please," said the woman on the other end of the line. I'm good at recognizing voices, but this one was unfamiliar. "Sorry, who do you want to speak to?" "You, of course. Ten minutes, please. That's how long we need to understand each other." Her voice was low and soft, but somewhat colorless. "To understand each other?" "Each other's feelings." I bent down and looked into the kitchen through the door. The pot with the spaghetti was boiling, and Claudio Abbado continued conducting The Thieving Magpie.

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Author
Haruki Murakami
Publisher
PSychogios
Publishers
Psychogios
Type
Classical Literature, Prose
Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
832
Release Date
10/2022
Publication Date
2022
Dimensions
14x21 cm
ISBN-13
9786180145168

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Reviews (4)

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  • Paper quality
  • Was it easy to read?
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  • Haruki Murakami at his best!!!

    It is my favorite Murakami novel, of all I have read so far at least.

    It is a wonderful story that weaves in elements from historical events of the Japanese war (stories from the '30s - '45) with settings in Manchuria, even Siberia, as well as the neighborhoods of Tokyo. Shockingly realistic images, with action, with a psycho-emotional descent into the subconscious, with suspense, with love and an intense need for communication and union with what each person is born to unite with.

    And all this having as a counterpoint a masterfully designed world of dreams and symbolism. With disappearances, searches, with a clear psychological profile of each character individually through amazing details.

    A book that could easily be a story taken from the universe of David Lynch.

    This characteristic trait of Murakami, who weaves stories within the main story and all together compose a mosaic of eternal union even if at first glance they seem to have nothing to do with each other... is masterful.

    It's amazing how he manages to connect even the smallest details that you probably might have overlooked.

    An amazing writer. Incredible pen!!! I declare myself a great admirer of his genius imagination, his immense talent, and especially here in THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE he draws you into its pages from the first lines and takes you on a journey until the very last goodbye of the finale.

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    • Paper quality
    • Was it easy to read?
    • Was it interesting enough?
    • I liked the writing style
    • I would read a book by the same author
    • I would recommend it for reading
    • Paper quality
    • Was it easy to read?
    • Was it interesting enough?
    • I liked the writing style
    • I would read a book by the same author
    • I would recommend it for reading
  • Haruki Murakami at his best!!!

    It is my favorite Murakami novel, of all I have read so far at least.

    It is a wonderful story that weaves in elements from historical events of the Japanese war (stories from the '30s - '45) with settings in Manchuria, even Siberia, as well as the neighborhoods of Tokyo. Shockingly realistic images, with action, with a psycho-emotional descent into the subconscious, with suspense, with love and an intense need for communication and union with what each person is born to unite with.

    And all this having as a counterpoint a masterfully designed world of dreams and symbolism. With disappearances, searches, with a clear psychological profile of each character individually through amazing details.

    A book that could easily be a story taken from the universe of David Lynch.

    This characteristic trait of Murakami, who weaves stories within the main story and all together compose a mosaic of eternal union even if at first glance they seem to have nothing to do with each other... is masterful.

    It's amazing how he manages to connect even the smallest details that you probably might have overlooked.

    An amazing writer. Incredible pen!!! I declare myself a great admirer of his genius imagination, his immense talent, and especially here in THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE he draws you into its pages from the first lines and takes you on a journey until the very last goodbye of the finale.

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