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Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. With wrap-around band that has some damage. Slight wear to edges of wrapper. Long dedication. Seller Inventory # 007305
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good+/Good+ 1st print 1st ed 2010 Harvill hardback, unclipped DJ, MISSING the wrapper band, one of 2,500 copies only. Fly-leaf has vertical crease, a little corner bumping to boards and light edge-wear to jacket, well-preserved bright and unmarked. More Murakami 1st's available. Size: 16 x 5 x 24 cm. 624 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction and Related items; Fiction: general and literary; ISBN: 1846553873. ISBN/EAN: 9781846553875. Dewey Code: 895.635. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 089185. Seller Inventory # 089185
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Collectable - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. VG-/VG 1st print 1st ed 2010 Harvill hardback, unclipped DJ, comes with the wrapper band, one of 2,500 copies only. Extensive previous gift note covering most of the fly-leaf. Top of spine just a little pushed, with minor separation to the top of the page block, VG bright and unmarked. More Murakami 1st's available. E4 Size: 16 x 5 x 24 cm. 624 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction and Related items; Fiction: general and literary; ISBN: 1846553873. ISBN/EAN: 9781846553875. Dewey Code: 895.635. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 088842. Seller Inventory # 088842
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus, Limited. First edition thus, hardcover luxury edition limited to 2500 copies, the book has a minor lean to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, some creasing to the upper corner of most pages, and a hint of smudging to the edges of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good copy in an unclipped, Near Fine dust jacket with wraparound band, which has a hint of wear to the corners, and is wrapped in Mylar. Additional images are available by request. Seller Inventory # 205205
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