The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - A Novel. Nominiert: IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1999
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| Verlag | Random House US |
| Auflage | 1998 |
| Seiten | 624 |
| Gewicht | 444 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0679775439 |
| EAN | 9780679775430 |
| Bestell-Nr | 67977543EA |
Toru Okada, ein unzufriedener Mann von 30 Jahren, gerade ohne Arbeit, von seiner tüchtigen Frau zur Selbsterforschung ermutigt, ist Held des Romans, eines Romans über die verschüttete Seele des globalisierten Menschen, der zwar fliegen kann, aber nur wie ein Spielzeugvogel, den irgend jemand aufgezogen hat.
Klappentext:
Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and one of Haruki Murakami\'s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife\'s missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath the city\'s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan\'s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.
Rezension:
"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