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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
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Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
Japan -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
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The wind-up bird chronicle / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
by
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Vintage International, 1998.
Call #:
FICTION
MUR
Subjects
Man-woman
relationships
--
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Japan
--
Fiction
.
Japan
--
Politics and government
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780679775430 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
607 : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
Japanese
fiction
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Translations into English.
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