Wind-up

"1Q84" shares traits with Mr. Murakami's "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" and "Kafka on the Shore," including his trademark melding of the mundane and the fantastical, and his obsession with cats and music.

The Race to Bring Over a Japanese Best Seller Alexandra Alter 2011

The Wind-up Girl cover isn't as compelling as the Space Marine illustration (to me), but I take that as a book I would be interested in reading.

Book Cover Smackdown! The Windup Girl vs. Legend of the Space Marines vs. The Terror 2009

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami: an ordinary man is brought into confrontation with a powerful corrupt force hidden beneath the placid surface of contemporary Japanese society and inside his own family.

MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009

Wind-up toys and automatons include piglets at a banquet (circa 1930), a gymnast on a bar (circa 1775-79), a sweet Pierrot serenading a crescent moon (1895) and dozens of small automated figures made by Fernand Martin around 1900, including a blacksmith at his anvil, a barber pouring tonic on a client's bald pate and a little thief on horseback making off with a tiny "Mona Lisa" under his arm.

Every Girl and Boy Land Judy Fayard 2011

Wind-up machine of exuberant self-confidence DeAngelo Hall raised some eyebrows when he said that Mike Shanahan's scheme would add four or five wins for the Redskins this season, and that they would finally start winning the close games they've lost in the past.

Daniels: Discipline can add six or seven wins 2010

Wind-up eco bamboo cell phone charged by whirling!

WIND-UP ECO BAMBOO PHONE: Charged by whirling! | Inhabitat 2008

UriShare – Wind-up eco bamboo cell phone charged by whirling!

WIND-UP ECO BAMBOO PHONE: Charged by whirling! | Inhabitat 2008

The initial slump is over, and 150 pages from the end I'm really enjoying The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Book Porn! 2007

I really liked The Tattooed Girl and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle but I know what you mean - I have to be in a certain mood for Murakami.

Book Porn! 2007

Nice to know that some of the stories from "Wind-up Bird Chronicle" do fit together in the end.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 2007