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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Rupert Degas
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2020
- Run Time
- 26 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
© Haruki Murakami 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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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
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Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down
Daily Telegraph
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Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty
Independent on Sunday
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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
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Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original
The Times
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How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
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[A] mesmeric story
Shortlist
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Visionary...a bold and generous book
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Rupert Degas
- Duration
- 26 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473582576
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Magical realism
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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.© Haruki Murakami 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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