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.

Translation

The English translation of the novel was written by Jay Rubin.

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It must also be noted that in addition to very notable differences between the Japanese and English versions, there are also differences between the original Japanese hardcover and paperback editions.

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Japanese - English

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