"The best way to think about reality," the narrator of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" declares, is "to get as far away from it as possible."

While having a similar personality and background, the character is not related to the one in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle of the same name.

If only one Murakami, make it Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

I found "Wind up Bird Chronicle" to be completely incomprehensible, knowing as little as I do about Japanese culture.

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" does have its flaws, principally in its uneven design.

If anyone can explain to me what The Wind-up Bird Chronicle was actually about, I'd be most grateful.

Would really like to know if HM meant there to be any shamanistic component for Wind up Bird Chronicle- because it seemed to fit.

The Wind up Bird Chronicle is one of my favourite books.

Start with Kafka on the Shore and then Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

The same character appears in Murakami's other story The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.