{"product_id":"the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-haruki-murakami","title":"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, now with a new introduction from the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToru Okada's cat has disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis wife is growing more distant every day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Visionary...a bold and generous book' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMen Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\nJay Rubin is the author of \u003ci\u003eInjurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e, and he edited \u003ci\u003eModern Japanese Writers\u003c\/i\u003e for the Scribner Writers Series. He has translated into English two novels by the Japanese writer Soseki Natsume, and also Haruki Murakami's \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eafter the quake\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978, \u003cb\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHear the Wind Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including \u003ci\u003eA Wild Sheep Chase\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, but it was \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1Q84,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMen Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 640 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63443666731357,"sku":"K096087487","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/227735-9608748700001A.jpg?v=1771170136","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-haruki-murakami","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}