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