Haruki Murakami’s latest novel is an expansion of a story he started over 40 years ago. comment sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment TWGI1 Additional comment actions. Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements. Just finished my first Murakami book, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. It is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic, marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness" he weaves into his narratives. His work has been described as ‘easily accessible, yet profoundly complex’. About Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His fiction, sometimes criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, was influenced by Western writers from Chandler to Vonnegut by way of Brautigan. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. He has also translated works by writers like Raymond Carver and J. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Murakami's most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–10). The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel - Ebook written by Haruki Murakami. His work has received numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country.
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