Original language:
Japanese Translated from: English
Authors: Murakami, Haruki
Translated by: Nauronaitė, Jūratė
Full translated source bibliographical description:
Murakami, Haruki. Nejimakitori Kuronikuru.
ISBN: 978-9955-23-252-0
Published in: Vilnius
Published on: 2009
Publisher: Baltos lankos
‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle‘ is one the the most ambitious works of Harumi Murakami. This novel ir about Toru Okada – a man who is constantly obeying other people wishes, passive, often apathetic. After quiting job he starts enjoying small pleasures – cooking, reading books, listening to jazz but this idyll doesn‘t last long. Toru‘s wife Kumiko asks to find their lost cat. She suggests going to an alley and look for it near an abandoned house at the end of the street. Even though he didn‘t find a cat name Noboru Wataya, Toru finds an empty well at the abandoned house. He keeps coming back to the well to think and to forget the world about him. After cat hasn‘t been found Kumiko asks her brother – the real Noboru Wataya – for help. He sends sisters Creta and Malta Kano who have to help finding the lost cat and help figuring other problems out which are yet to come.
Haruki Murakami is extremely contraversial Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have been critically acclaimed, author became the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel ‘Kafka on the Shore‘. He is being held a very important personality in post modern literature. Best known for novels ‘A Wild Cheep Chase‘ and ‘Norwegian Wood‘.