![]() ![]() ![]() All of Murakami's storytelling genius-combining elements of detective fiction, deadpan humor, and metaphysical truth, and swiftly transforming commonplace realism into sur- real revelation-is on full, seamless display. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteri- ously collapses a jeremiad against the su- perficiality of contemporary politics an investigation of painfully suppressed memo- ries of war a bildungsroman about a com- passionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. And with this hugely ambitious new book-a true magnum opus, equal in scope and execution to Yukio Mishima's posthumous tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility-he will take his place in the inter- national pantheon of contemporary literature. With three novels and one short-story collection now translated into English, Haruki Murakami has emerged as the most significant Japanese novelist in decades. ![]()
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