- literary fiction, contemporary fantasy, psychological fiction, parapsychology
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.harukimurakami.com/book/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
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Prestige, grave, contemplative and meticulous.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- October 2005
- Pages
- 632
- Publisher
- Vintage International, Círculo de Lectores, NXB Hội nhà văn
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- vie, Polish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780099503965
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“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture of the Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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