![]() As he is unemployed, Toru’s life is very bland, and he spends his days cooking pasta and listening for the “wind-up bird,” which he has never seen, but believes must wind the spring that powers the world. The book follows Toru Okada, a recently unemployed ex-lawyer who lives in a small Japanese town with his wife Kumiko. The novel is based on two of Murakami’s earlier short stories, “The Wind-up Bird” and “Tuesday’s Women.” It was originally published in three volumes in Japan, from 1994-1995, as “Book of the Thieving Magpie,” “Book of the Prophesizing Bird,” and “Book of the Bird-Catcher Man.” In 1997, Murakami worked with translator Jay Rubin to release a version of the book in English, compiled into one (very slightly abridged) volume, which weighs in at 607 pages as a paperback. ![]() The Wind-up Bird Chronicle ( ねじまき鳥クロニクル Nejimakitori Kuronikuru) is a novel full of bizarre characters and unbelievable plots all wrapped up together in Haruki Murakami’s utterly unique and addicting ![]()
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