The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Dreamlike and compelling. . . . Murakami is a genius. Chicago Tribune

Mesmerizing. . . . Murakami s most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice. The Washington Post Book World

A significant advance in Murakami s art . . . a bold and generous book. The New York Times Book Review

A stunning work of art . . . that bears no comparisons. New York Observer

With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars. Philadelphia Inquirer

Seductive. . . . A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange. San Francisco Chronicle

An epic . . . as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi. New York Magazine

Mesmerizing, original . . . fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding. Baltimore Sun

A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan s past . . . brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular. Pico Iyer, Time