An edition of ねじまき鳥クロニクル (1997)

The wind-up bird chronicle

translated from the Japanese ; by Jay Rubin.

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An edition of ねじまき鳥クロニクル (1997)

The wind-up bird chronicle

translated from the Japanese ; by Jay Rubin.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (55 ratings)
  • 174 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 73 Have read

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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The Harvill Press
Language
English
Pages
609

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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

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

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

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20th century

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The wind-up bird chronicle: translated from the Japanese ; by Jay Rubin.
1998, The Harvill Press
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
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First published: U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Includes bibliography.

Translation of: Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.635

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Pagination
609p. ;
Number of pages
609

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18192187M
ISBN 10
186046470X
OCLC/WorldCat
60155085
LibraryThing
5069
Goodreads
489283

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Work ID
OL2625412W

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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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