The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Double Signed 1st Printing)

Murakami, Haruki

ISBN 10: 0679446699 / ISBN 13: 9780679446699

Published by Knopf, New York, 1997

About this Item

A Fine book in an As New jacket. First American Edition (stated)/ First Printing (no other printings noted). DOUBLE SIGNED in English and Japanese on a lightly partly toned Waterstones bookplate attached to the initial half title page. Book has very mild bumping to base of spine else pristine inside and out - clean, unmarked, tight and square. Mylar protected jacket is fully intact ($25.95), bright and clean with no markings or tears. Book also comes with a bonus rare 1997 promotional postcard featuring a cat and fantastic graphics and a printed paragraph "As you can see, I'm quite devoted to this author; I was born in Japan about the same time." Many consider The Wind-Up Bird to be Haruki Murakami's Magnum Opus. A solid, likely unread, highly collectible copy over all. Very rare and scarce.

Seller Inventory # 002634

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Double Signed 1st Printing)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679446699
• ISBN 13: 9780679446699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.  Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo.  As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.  The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.  He is the author of the novels Dance, Dance, Dance, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and A Wild Sheep Chase, and of The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories.  His latest novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun, will be published by Knopf in 1999.  His work has been translated into fourteen languages.


From the Trade Paperback edition.