The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• Mesmerizing. . . . Murakami’s most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice.

  — The Washington Post Book World

• A significant advance in Murakami’s art . . . a bold and generous book.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• A stunning work of art . . . that bears no comparisons.

  — New York Observer

• With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars.

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• Seductive. . . . A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange.

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Dreamlike and compelling…Murakami is a genius.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Seductive…A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A significant advance in Murakami’s art…a bold and generous book.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory…Compelling [and] convincing.”

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• Dreamlike and compelling. . . . Murakami is a genius.

  — Chicago Tribune

• An epic . . . as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi.

  — New York Magazine

• Mesmerizing, original . . . fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding.

  — Baltimore Sun

• A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing.

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan’s past . . . brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular.

  — Pico Iyer, Time