The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami's novel of 1994 and 1995, in Jay Rubin's English translation, whose central themes include war and violence.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was published in Japan in 1994 and 1995, and Jay Rubin’s English translation appeared in 1997. For this novel Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award. Rie Qudan compares reading Murakami to a lonely journey through the deepest recesses of the human heart. She notes that its central themes of war and violence feel far from her daily life, yet remind her that the darker sides of humanity are close to her own existence.
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