Format:
Book
Title:
The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Author:
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Call Number:
FIC MURAKAMI H
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Description:
611, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. All of Murakami's storytelling genius - combining elements of detective fiction, deadpan humor, and metaphysical truth, and swiftly transforming commonplace realism into surreal revelation - is on full, seamless display. And in turning his literary imagination loose on a broad social and political canvas, he bares nothing less than the soul of a country steeped in the violence of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
Adult core collection.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Other Author:
Rubin, Jay, 1941-
ISBN:
9780679775430 (trade)
0679446699 (alk. paper)