The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Fülszöveg

'Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journeys
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
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself
growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit
telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the
tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life - spent cooking,
reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table -
are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however
obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
'Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk
garment of deceptive beauty'
Independent on Sunday
'Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond
Chandler, Arthur C.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journeys
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
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself
growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit
telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the
tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life - spent cooking,
reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table -
are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however
obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.
'Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk
garment of deceptive beauty'
Independent on Sunday
'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
'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible
to put down'
Daily Telegraph
'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of
contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration'
Independent on Sunday Vissza