The Adventures of Hiking Sheep -- A Series of Essays by Haruki Murakami

Author: (Japanese) Haruki Murakami
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Publish Date: 2001-08-13
Features: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is the third novel by Haruki Murakami after his debut works Kafka on the Shore and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, forming the "I and Rat" trilogy with the aforementioned two. The novel is rich in allegorical and mythological elements, and the author considered its creation "so smooth that it ended just at the right moment." The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is Murakami's first full-scale long novel, for which he received the Naoki Prize for New Writers.