“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

“A bold and generous book.… No matter how fantastical the events it describes may be, the straight-ahead storytelling never loses its propulsive force.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Compelling.”

—Los Angeles Times

“A vision no American novelist could have invented.… [Murakami] aims to provoke not just a frisson of unsettlement, but a deeper, more consequential unease.”

— Newsday

“A major work.… On a canvas stretched from Manchuria to Malta, and with sound effects from strange birdcalls to sleigh bells in cyberspace, this is a fully mature, engrossing tale of individual and national destinies entwined. It will be hard to surpass.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“A surreal, sprawling drama … that marks Murakami’s most ambitious work to date.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Ambitious.… The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle soars, thanks to Murakami’s virtuosic control … and his complex, disturbing view of human nature.”

— Time Out

“Everything in [ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ] is intricately connected to everything else.… [It] resonates in our time, across history, within individuals.”

—Boston Globe +s1Ra0T5xW1e4ot7LTd69Nx2y6sQCIIgsVE1q2RooCGSaTxRbr7J6pAiw+d0BQMo