Description: "Magnificent. . . .(Murakami) has taken a pre-millennial swing for the fences a la David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo" ("Newsweek"). "A surreal, sprawling drama . . . that marks . . . Murakami's most ambitious work to date".--"Publishers Weekly".
Review Quotes: "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