The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami - Brossura

Murakami, Haruki

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099540959 ISBN 13: 9780099540953

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2010

Riassunto

INCLUDES A READING GUIDE

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.

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Recensione:

"Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work" (Independent)

"Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty" (Independent on Sunday)

"Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original" (New York Times)

"Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down" (Daily Telegraph)

"How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration" (Independent on Sunday)

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ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099540959
• ISBN 13: 9780099540953
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 640