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Can I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle on EtoBox?

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami, Haruki is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle about?

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and...

Who reads The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Murakami, Haruki
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307278739
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Fantasy
Rating
4.17 / 5 (73 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14