FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 1998

Copyright © 1997 by Haruki Murakami

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan in three separate volumes as Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru by Shinchosa Ltd., Tokyo, in 1994 and 1995. Copyright © 1994, 1995 by Shinchosa Ltd. This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997.

Two chapters of this work were originally published in The New Yorker as “The Zoo Attack” (July 31, 1995) and “Another Way to Die” (January 20, 1997).

Alfred Birnbaum coined the term “wind-up bird” in his translation of “The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women” included in Murakami’s collection The Elephant Vanishes .

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Murakami, Haruki, [date]

[Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru. English]
The wind-up bird chronicle : a novel / by Haruki Murakami ;
translated and adapted from the Japanese by Jay Rubin with the participation
of the author.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76270-2
I. Rubin, Jay, [date]. II. Title.
PL856.U673N4513 1997
895.6′35—dc21 97-2813

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