The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved 96% of Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 27 books, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel, 11 days ago. (show what wasn’t approved) (hide what wasn’t approved)

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 27 books, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel, 11 days ago.

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Saturday, October 31 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Monday, October 12 2009.

Betsy F edited the quotations of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"II felt as if I had become part of a badly written novel, that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal. And perhaps it was true."true.”Toru Okada

Betsy F edited the quotations of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"I felt as if I had become part of a badly written novel, that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal. And perhaps it was true."”Toru Okada

dhighman edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Monday, August 3 2009.

• Added: a man looks for his lost cat.

Shelfari edited the description of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Haruki Murakami:
• 2 : Jay Rubin:

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Jay Rubin: (Primary AuthorNone)