The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - ISBN: 9781529982367
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Cat missing, wife distant, calls strange, reality dissolves, bizarre journey begins.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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    640 pages

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    8 September 2026

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Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers

Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.

As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada’s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529982367
ISBN-10:1529982367
Author:Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:8 September 2026
Weight:440g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 42mm
About The Author

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and Men Without Women, Murakami’s distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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