Dreamlike and compelling. . . . Murakami is a genius." -"Chicago Tribune" "Mesmerizing. . . . Murakami's most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice." -"The Washington Post Book World" "A significant advance in Murakami's art . . . a bold and generous book." -"The New York Times Book Review" "A stunning work of art . . .that bears no comparisons." -"New York Observer" "With The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami spreads his brilliant, fantastical wings and soars." -"Philadelphia Inquirer" "Seductive. . . . A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange." -"San Francisco Chronicle" "An epic . . . as sculpted and implacable as a bird by Brancusi." -"New York Magazine" "Mesmerizing, original . . . fascinating, daring, mysterious and profoundly rewarding." -"Baltimore Sun" "A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory. . . . Compelling [and] convincing." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's past . . . brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular." -Pico Iyer, "Time
