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The wind-up bird chronicle

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An edition of ねじまき鳥クロニクル (1997)

The wind-up bird chronicle

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (47 ratings) ·
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Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
607

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Subjects

literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology, fate and fatalism, Fiction, Japanese fiction, Man-woman relationships, Marriage, Missing persons, Politics and government, Translations into English, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, political, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese Psychological fiction, Heisei period, New York Times reviewed

People

Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, May Kasahara, Tokutaro Mamiya, Malta Kano, Creta Kano, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka

Places

Japan, Tokyo, Manchuria, Ginza, Shinjuku, Shinjuku Gyoen, Akasaka, Setagaya Ward, Ueno Zoo, Shinagawa

Times

20th century

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
2010, Harvill Secker
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The wind-up bird chronicle
2003, Vintage
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
2002?, Vintage International
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Mister Aufziehvogel.
November 1, 2000, btb
Paperback in German
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st American ed.
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This translation originally published: U.S.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997; London: Harvill, 1998.

Translated from the Japanese.

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895.635
Library of Congress
PL880

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Pagination
607p. ;
Number of pages
607

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OL15515237M
ISBN 10
0099448793
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5069
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When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
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