The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru) (ISBN 0679775439) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. It is about a low key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat disappears. This triggers a chain of events that proves that his seemingly mundane monotonous life is much more complicated than it appears. Also examined in the novel is the Manchukuo episode of World War II and its place in Japanese history. Excerpts were published in The New Yorker. The American translation was published in 1998.

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Haruki Murakami - Manchukuo - World War II - Japanese history - The New Yorker - 1998

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For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Oe Kenzaburo.

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Yomiuri Literary Award - Oe Kenzaburo

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